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Speaker 1: So you had a good time?
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Speaker 2: It was very nice.
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Speaker 3: I did.
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Speaker 4: I did.
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Speaker 1: It was really nice. They were they were just starting lunch and they were just starting lunch. My glasses are right here. And they had a very nice program. And it basically is just kind of a casual, you know, meet and greet. Tony Lamont is He's hosting. He's the MC.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 2: He's hosting.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Karen Vaughn, of course, our operations manager. And Andrea Carer, the station general manager.
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Speaker 2: General manager.
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Speaker 1: Was there. And Tony was very, very nice. I didn't think I would have to do anything, but I did have to stand up because I just was there to support. But it was really, really nice. And, you know, a great turnout. I mean, there was no parking.
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Speaker 2: No parking.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
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Speaker 7: And Tony, he's an exceptional MC.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he really is. He is so natural. He is. And just very good. So we had a very nice time. They're still there. The guest speaker was going to be the new pastor at St. John's, I do believe.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the new?
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I think he's been on the show.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Reynolds.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's been on Reynolds.
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Speaker 1: Uh, Reagan, Rob Robinson, pastor Reagan. I, the Reagan part.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The Reagan part.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Uh, Reagan.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, um, forgive me because I'm, you know, several things, but I do know, uh, we talked and I said, you know, we met each other electronically. We met electronically. So, uh, it was good to see him. Very tall man. Very, very, uh, impressive. Um, But there were just so many people there, you know, and a nice community representation. Kendell Adams from IMPD was there.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Representative Cherish Pryor, Indiana State Representative. And she said, and I told her I would share this on the show, she asked that we make sure we hit question one on the ballot and explain as much as possible. She was going to send me some documents. In fact, she may have already sent it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, question one. Yeah, we've talked about it.
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Speaker 1: Question one, and she said it would be really, really bad news.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. If we don't... If it's a ballot question, here we go. And, you know, it is, what is this current law proposed change? You know, I'm going to see if Chase can put this on our website.
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Speaker 2: Oh, good idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, see if he can put it on our website, because it truly, truly does explain and breaks down those questions and the implications thereof.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: Current law proposed change. Yeah, the current law is only people charged with murder or treason can be denied bail or proof is either evident, you know, presumptive. So anyway, there's no bail for murder in the state of Indiana.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 1: The proposed change to that is that it would allow denial of bail for any offense. Oh, if the proof is evident or the presumption strong and the state provides by clear and convincing evidence. that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any person or the community. So that means if you held up, I don't know, a bank or, well, sometimes there's no bail for that. Let me think of something a little more pedestrian. But depending on how whoever arrests you and how they write it up, how that is put, you could be denied bail. And every offense in the state of Indiana, I think, is bailable with the exception of murder or treason, if I'm not mistaken. So, yeah, I'm going to send this to Chase. So if you guys want to find it, and she's going to come on and talk about it, but it's a mishmash of words. It's a word salad type of thing, and most people don't read through it. And to see, I.
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Speaker 2: Don't know.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You got to read through it to understand it, and then you got to go back, and then you got to go back. Because I read every line of questions. I read every one, and then I went back because I don't always understand when I first read things. And so I always double and triple check to make sure.
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Speaker 2: I do too.
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Speaker 7: I try to do the same. Do you feel like the word salad is intentional?
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Speaker 1: Of course.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: It couldn't be put this simply.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no. This is a one sheet put together by, I do believe, The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, of course, yeah. They put this one sheet together and it says, what is it? The current law, the proposed change, the potential community impact, and the key facts. So, yeah, let me tell her thank you because she did send that.
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Speaker 7: That's so good to know because, again, as we talked yesterday, so many people get to that part, certain things, and it's like, I don't know what that means. I don't understand that. It's so much to read. And maybe they're on a schedule, time restraints, and just can't read it all. It's like, well, I'm not going to do anything with that.
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Speaker 1: The thing of it is, let me put it right here. When you're voting, you know, there's nobody standing over you.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Some people should be.
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Speaker 2: To explain things.
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Speaker 1: Well, to tell you that, hey, hurry up and get out of there.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's true. You're right about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you vote, you have as much time as you need. There are no restrictions. There are no restrictions on that. area, you know, a desk or wherever, a computer, don't ever feel like you're rushed or anything.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no. I'm just saying if they are rushed based on their schedule.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And some folks just want to get out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 2: They want to get in, get out, and maybe something else is going on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, you should never feel rushed.
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Speaker 1: No, don't ever feel rushed. Valid question one explanation. Here we go. Explanation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those things are so important to know.
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Speaker 1: Please post this to all.
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Speaker 7: Such a good idea to have that information. We need to know things we need to know. Again, a lot of people won't have time or take the time to read some of that. And the word salad is created to make it what it is. In some cases, make it difficult.
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't bother reading that. It's too much to read.
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Speaker 1: I'll just say. Yeah, I'm asking if Chase can post it across all of our websites. Yeah, it's not going to hurt. No, not at all.
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Speaker 11: It's good to know.
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Speaker 1: Please, if at all possible, I'll say if at all possible. And let's see, did I copy you on that? I'll give it to you, too, so you can have it and you can print it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Okay, they're sent and done. So now, yes, nothing like a good old, and we want to thank all of our sponsors that made the luncheon possible, and especially Country Kitchen because they throw down.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Country Kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Country Kitchen was there, yes. And it was a feast, a soulful feast as a soul restaurant, soul food restaurant would prepare. I mean, you had, I didn't see everything, but I saw a lot of things on, folks plates. And of course there was the fried chicken, the cornbread, the greens. Uh, there was probably Mac and cheese. There, there's a whole bunch of stuff, a host of just a good old country kitchen, a good old country kitchen lunch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Country kitchen lunch. And so we thank, uh, miss Pat and everybody over there for what they were able to do. Uh, and I'm sure they're still feasting on some.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine.
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Speaker 7: So taking their time to enjoy and to, uh, Just relax and enjoy the moment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, congratulations to Reverend Jim Payton. This was his idea several years ago. And he just thought of something really, really simple, and it has grown now to where it's huge. It really was. I'm like, whoa. And actually, even as I was leaving, there were still pastors coming in.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: That's very nice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice. 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310 is the number to the show. And on our show today, our weekly sports segment with Danny Bridges. That's coming up in the second half. He's got a lot to talk about because the Pacers were in action last night for the first time in a long time. Their preseason game, which was in Ames, Iowa.
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Speaker 5: Ames.
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Speaker 2: They won that game, too.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 3: 123-112.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they did?
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Speaker 1: Okay. Did you watch?
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Speaker 2: I did not. But they beat the Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: That would be nice.
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Speaker 2: So hopefully that'll.
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Speaker 1: Continue through the season. Yes, indeedy. So we're going to talk to Danny about that. I don't think he has a column this week.
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Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: He usually sends them to me in advance because I get his columns before I can get the paper. Although I guess I could get the paper early in the morning at a newsstand if I wanted to try to dig one up but it is have you ever tried to get a paper nowadays it's.
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Speaker 2: Hard to get a paper it is very hard it's not easy.
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Speaker 1: Either people buy them up real quickly or they just don't produce or as you know present as many as there there should be there.
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Speaker 7: So so many are online but of course in a lot of cases it's behind a paywall.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what kind of stops me i'm like no yeah i don't think i want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Why do they do that well i guess you used to have to pay for it when it was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to pay for it. So I guess they want you to pay for it then.
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Speaker 1: But it's so silly because if I get stopped by a paywall, I just go the back way, Google it, and.
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Speaker 8: It comes up.
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Speaker 7: I need to remember that going the back way.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it does. Just go back in there and try that.
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Speaker 1: And the whole article will come up.
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Speaker 5: It's like, well, what?
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Speaker 1: What's the point of a paper? I guess it's for those that really want to comply. I see folks coming back.
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Speaker 7: I used to subscribe to a paper locally. And when my subscription ended, I was going to renew. But the problem was I couldn't get anybody who could understand what I was saying or I couldn't understand them.
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Speaker 2: So I was suspicious. I thought, oh, you can do it online.
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Speaker 7: So I tried that and there was some issue. So let me call this number. And the person I got, I could hardly understand them. They go, what do you say, sir?
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Speaker 1: I said, okay, well.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's why. So I just said, never mind.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: I never renewed for that reason.
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Speaker 1: The offshore stuff is still going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much cheaper it could possibly be, but the frustration levels are off the chain.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, they are.
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Speaker 2: They really are. That's why I didn't renew. I don't have enough patience for this. And I'm a patient person, very patient.
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Speaker 1: And, you know, I had that happen one time. I'm very patient as well. I try to be. But I had that happen to me once with some kind of a service. I can't even remember what the issue was. But after we had finished, the company asked, what did I think? And I lit them up. It's like, how in the world do you expect me to get any kind of resolution to any kind of a problem when I can't even understand what your representative is saying. Nothing against your representative. Everybody needs a job.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: But for goodness sake, can you get somebody that can speak the English language whose accent isn't so thick? But they weren't interested in that. And now you know what? Yeah, I don't think so. Because if you give a wide open one, okay, fine. But have you noticed that very few.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, afterthought, very few surveys are open. Most of them are pre-populated because this is what they want to know about. They don't care if there was an issue that didn't even come up, that didn't even come up in this list that you have.
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Speaker 11: True.
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Speaker 2: That's true.
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Speaker 1: There's nowhere to put that in the evaluation.
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 11: You're right.
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Speaker 1: So these pre-populated evaluations are just basically... To me, they're canceling the noise in terms of what you really want to talk about or really want to explain. And sometimes I want to tell them so badly that the list, the drop-down menu, here, okay, you have a problem with your having technical issues.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Is it one of these? You know, and no.
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Speaker 2: It's not one of those.
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Speaker 1: And is it one of these?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then they send you all the way back to the beginning. Tell us what your problem is.
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Speaker 2: And you tell them, but it's not what the problem is. You can't really express what it is.
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Speaker 7: It's like Sunday after church, my wife stopped by an alteration place to make sure that everything, there was a language barrier. It took 15 minutes to get an issue that should have taken a minute solved. And they had to call this person, call that person, call this person. And there was a partial payment that she had already made, and she just wanted to make sure she got the receipt for it. And they didn't give her a receipt. So she just came back to go, well, you want to cancel?
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Speaker 9: No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: So it took maybe 20 minutes, Tina, to be honest. It took maybe 20 minutes to get that straight.
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Speaker 1: Was that a chain or was that an independent?
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Speaker 2: Independent. Okay.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I can almost see that because it's independent, you know?
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Speaker 2: But it's never happened before in all the years she's gone there.
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Speaker 1: Well, that makes sense, too. Well, yeah, that makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 2: That was very odd.
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Speaker 1: So the owner of that independent outlet needs to know about that. I'm talking about these multi-billion dollar corporations that hire these people for $ 2 an hour offshore to do, you know, just if you want to talk to a live human. And I always say I want to talk to a human who speaks English.
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Speaker 2: Yes, me too. I don't want to go through that whole thing. What? You're trying to listen. You're trying to press the phone to your ear.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Say that again. It gets annoying.
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Speaker 1: And they do try their hardest.
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Speaker 4: They do.
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps they shouldn't be in customer service, maybe somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: In another area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if their language and accent is such to the point where it's counterproductive, then what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? So anyway. The weather. The weather, Eric.
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Speaker 2: The weather. I can tell you. I can tell you. In a word, sunny right now and pretty nice out.
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Speaker 7: Short to leave weather. 76 downtown right now. A few clouds here and there. The rest of the day should be sunny and a mixture of clouds from time to time. About 79 before sunset tonight and tomorrow 83. Then on Saturday, partly sunny 81. We'll get some rain on Saturday night and into Sunday. It looks like showers and Sunday night as well. But it'll be nice all the way up until Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 1: So Sunday, I heard one of the meteorologists this morning, early, early this morning, like about five, giving a report. And I can't remember if it was national or local, but anyway. They were saying that for Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday is going to be a good day to stay inside and watch the Colts or whoever, or, you know, Home Shopping Network, whatever you do on a rainy Sunday afternoon, because it's going to be dreary cool and wet as a direct result of what's coming offshore, you know, from, yeah, coming from the Atlantic to the eastern seaboard all the way over to, I don't know what the name of the storm is.
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Speaker 2: I don't know the name. I can look it up for you.
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Speaker 1: I can look it up, too.
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Speaker 2: For Sunday, yeah, it's about 71 a chance of showers. It's going to be cooler.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: But it looks like- Windy.
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Speaker 1: They say the wind's going to start picking up.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the winds will be out of the east about 11 miles per hour, gusting to 20 miles per hour on Saturday night. Then on Sunday, under 71, gust as high as 18 on Sunday, with, of course, rain, showers, mainly before 2, it looks like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, rainy and wet.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm, rainy and wet.
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Speaker 1: Rainy and very, very.
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Speaker 2: So Saturday night it'll kick in.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Cooling off a bit.
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Speaker 1: Cooling off. But they say the winds should start picking up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Thursday or, well, today is Thursday. Friday. What day? Are we on Thursday?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So here we go. Yeah. Tomorrow.
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Speaker 11: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Late tonight and tomorrow we'll start to see a little bit of increase in winds and that'll be increasing each day.
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Speaker 2: Some call it AKA baby Friday. This being Thursday. I've heard that.
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Speaker 1: Also known as?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday. Okay. Baby Friday.
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Speaker 1: Baby Friday.
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Speaker 2: Almost Friday.
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Speaker 1: Friday Eve.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Friday Eve. There you go. That's it.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to grab a call.
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Speaker 1: Okay. We'll go ahead and grab that. And while we are talking, this is the talk of a lot of folks across the country right now. Did you receive, either in the mail or in your account via direct deposit, a $ 90 check today from the Social Security Administration? If you did, it's not a joke. It's real. Millions of seniors are receiving $ 90 deposits. If you're a senior citizen, I should say, I should preface that. If you are a senior citizen, you're receiving and you signed up for Medicare. If you're a senior citizen, who is enrolled in Medicare, senior citizen enrolled in Medicare, you are getting $ 90 today. Most of you are getting it. It may come in a check tomorrow or whatever. The payments are tied to the Trump administration's announcement last Friday that it would send checks to about 20 million Americans, 20 million Medicare enrollees to help lower, get this, lower health care costs. A $ 90 check is going to be sent to about 20 million, if not already, if you haven't gotten it already. $ 90. Okay? In people's accounts right now, today, 20 million people who are signed up for Medicare are getting checks today, $ 90. Trump said last Friday that his administration would send the money to some Medicare participants In the health care plans Part B, Medicare Part B, which pays for doctor visits, outpatient care, and preventive screenings. About one-third of Medicare's Part B, 62.9 million enrollees are eligible. However, roughly 40 million people do not qualify for the payments. Seniors who are enrolled in Part B under traditional Medicare and who don't pay Income-related premiums or receive premium assistance from Medicaid are eligible for the one-time payment. Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage, however, are ineligible. So if you're in Medicare Advantage, you're not getting this. That leaves, again, more than 20 million Part B enrollees who are eligible. according to the fact sheet. Now, here's the quote. People who are paying the income-related premium have higher incomes to begin with, so the thinking is that they may be better able to absorb higher costs and wouldn't benefit much from the $ 90 payment as people with lower incomes. This is from Juliet Kubansky. vice president and director of program on Medicare policy at KFF, and this is what she told CBS News. That logic doesn't make sense to me because I think what happens is people who don't have the money to buy the higher packages as a whole tend to roll the dice, right? And maybe I'm misunderstanding it. Anyway, it's lopsided. It's still lopsided thinking because she said people enrolled, you know, people, let's see, people who are paying income-related premiums have higher incomes to begin with. So income-related premiums have higher premiums to begin with.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, long story short, I'll noodle on that one a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing that right now as you're talking about it.
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Speaker 1: It does say, though, I mean, Medicare Advantage is out of the whole thing. Medicare Advantage isn't the same as traditional Medicare, which is likely why those enrollees don't qualify for the payments. So that is fair to say. I can't really count other people's money and say why they choose this and why they choose that.
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Speaker 5: But.
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Speaker 1: The agency says the initiative improves Medicare and makes coverage more affordable by putting health care dollars back where they belong in the hands of our Medicare beneficiaries. Now, the payments are reportedly funded by the Medicare improvement funds established by Congress to help support the original Medicare fee-for-service program. I'm not familiar with that, so don't ask. Experts say the $ 90 million, while helpful, will not fully offset higher costs facing Medicare recipients. Here's another thing experts are saying. Maybe they're asking the question, is this a political stunt to try to gain favor rolling into the midterms by the Trump administration? Because I'm going to tell you, if it were, I mean, come on, if I give you $ 90 right now and say this is to help offset your health care costs, What's that $ 90 going to do while you're paying health care for the remainder of the year and then all into next year?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Unless it's consistent or sustained, it doesn't do a thing.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 2: Consistent.
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Speaker 1: Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure everybody, all these folks out there are probably really appreciating that they got 90 extra dollars in their pocket. in their accounts today. But for what?
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Speaker 2: That's one time, isn't it?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 2: It's not a monthly thing.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So how is this supposed to cut health care costs and put money back in the pockets of Americans and help them pay their premiums?
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Speaker 12: Hmm.
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Speaker 2: Good question.
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Speaker 1: It's gas money. It's not even gas money.
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Speaker 7: I was just going to say that's not quite gas, or it could be depending on what you drive.
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Speaker 1: $ 90 nowadays won't pay a utility bill. It won't pay for a tank full of gas. If it does, it'll take most of it up.
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Speaker 2: It'll take most of it.
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Speaker 1: And when you've got premiums, like my daughter, when she was, well, my son too, when they were enrolling annually for work, their healthcare premiums per check, per pay, We're between $ 250 and $ 300. Uh-huh. And that's not with the top tier. That's with the mid-range PPO.
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 1: And both of them. So that's $ 400 a month at minimum.
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Speaker 2: At minimum.
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Speaker 9: At minimum.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 1: $ 500 a month is coming out of your hard-earned pay.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: And you're going to tell me that a one-time payment of $ 90 is going to help you offset those health care costs?
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Speaker 11: Uh-uh.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: One time.
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Speaker 1: If you're smart enough not to be fooled by it, go ahead. Go ahead and, I mean, let me put it this way. If you're smart enough not to be fooled by it, good for you. If you think that that is going to buy your vote, then you don't have, you're cheap, I guess. I don't know. You're easy. You're an easy person to persuade. I don't know how $ 90, but I will say this. Seniors who are in Medicare, enrolled in Medicare, They've been to the rodeo a time or two. They know budgets. They know, they can smell a rat when they, you know, a skunk, I'm sorry, they can smell a skunk when there's one in the room.
00:24:37
Speaker 2: A skunk.
00:24:38
Speaker 1: So $ 90, and then, you know, all of this money that the Trump administration is throwing out there trying to get people to like them, trying to get people to vote for them. There's another $ 500 rebate or something he's talking, I don't even know what it is, and then the $ 5, 000 one if, Republicans stay. But this $ 90 rebate for, and it's not even for everybody.
00:25:02
Speaker 2: That's true.
00:25:03
Speaker 1: It's not even for everybody.
00:25:04
Speaker 2: That's true. And it's a one-time. And a one-time thing. One-time thing.
00:25:09
Speaker 1: So is that all it takes to get your vote?
00:25:14
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
00:25:16
Speaker 11: No.
00:25:16
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering. But anyway, to those who got the money today, good for you. Enjoy it. And let's see how far it goes after today.
00:25:26
Speaker 2: Get some gas.
00:25:28
Speaker 1: Are you really, really, really going to put that $ 90 toward your health care premium? I don't know how stupid they think Americans are. And especially if you've enrolled in Medicare, like I said, you've been around the block a time or two. That's true. You've been to this rodeo. You know what's up. You're not going to be fooled. Now, with the promises of the $ 5, 000 check, I think that'll fool a lot of folks.
00:25:52
Speaker 2: That'll fool a lot.
00:25:52
Speaker 1: You know, dangling that out there like a carrot.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: $ 5, 000.
00:25:56
Speaker 1: But, you know, putting $ 90 in your account for one time.
00:26:02
Speaker 5: Once.
00:26:02
Speaker 1: Effort once to pay off. Yeah, they're saying it's not going to do anything to lower health care.
00:26:08
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
00:26:10
Speaker 1: So whether it's a bona fide genuine political stunt or just out of the goodness of his heart, he just wanted to give folks a little extra something for the month of October.
00:26:23
Speaker 2: Goodness of his heart.
00:26:24
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
00:26:25
Speaker 1: Happens to be the month of October, which is right, you know, we're less than a month away from the election. So these funds have hit less than a month from the election.
00:26:34
Speaker 2: Maybe it's from the goodness of his heart.
00:26:36
Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
00:26:37
Speaker 4: Maybe.
00:26:37
Speaker 2: Could be.
00:26:38
Speaker 1: Could be. Anyway, speaking of which, the lines are open, 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. We'll get to your phone calls. Let's squeeze in a quick break right here. And when we come back, we'll go to phone lines.
00:26:59
Speaker 13: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indie Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:27:11
Speaker 1: And we're back with Community Connection 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310. If you got a check today, good for you, but please don't be fooled. Don't be fooled. Look at the timing. Look and see if you get another one. This is a one-time deal.
00:27:28
Speaker 5: And....
00:27:30
Speaker 1: You know, to me, I think.
00:27:32
Speaker 4: It, I.
00:27:34
Speaker 9: Don't know.
00:27:35
Speaker 1: The intelligence of seniors is not being appreciated, put it that way. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. We'll go to the phone lines. Terry, go ahead. How are you?
00:27:49
Speaker 3: Hi.
00:27:49
Speaker 9: I was wondering, am I the only one that pays cash for their utility bill at Kroger's or Family Dollar? And I'm consistent doing that. That's what's best for me. 20 here, 50 there, case care of the bill. I get in the mail from AES, the $ 10 billion company, a plastic little key fob that says, you can pay your AES account, blah, blah, blah, blah, with your cash at your favorite participating retailer. And it's a little key fob. I see there's an extension of different places in which you can pay it. Did two days of going to two different locations, Kroger on Allisonville, no, because it's not working. Not Allisonville, I'm sorry, on Keystone, they informed me that I am the fourth person to come in to use this key file to pay in cash. And again, it's not working. Go to Endora. They say it's not working. They're not using it because it's not working with their system. Okay. I've got another day before it's due. I go to Family Dollar. It's on there. Is it Family Dollar? Yes. Dollar General. Go to locations. They too are saying it's not working. And I'm like, I'm frustrated. So I look at my key fob. The number on here is not my account number. So had I, if it did work, I'd be paying someone else's bill. Am I the only one that got this in the mail?
00:29:29
Speaker 1: This is the first I've heard about the key fobs. I don't know, but, you know, we can certainly look it up. That is frustrating as all get out. I can't imagine that. It sounds like they don't. want you to pay cash. They want you to load the fob. Is that correct?
00:29:44
Speaker 9: The key fob.
00:29:45
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:29:45
Speaker 9: That's what I got over and over again.
00:29:48
Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
00:29:48
Speaker 1: That's the first I've heard of that. I mean, that's interesting.
00:29:51
Speaker 9: It came in the mail with my name on it, all correct and everything. So I'm trying to figure out. How is it that you can get the address and name correct and you got the account number wrong? And if you're a $ 10 billion business, how do.
00:30:08
Speaker 5: You do that?
00:30:10
Speaker 4: I don't know.
00:30:10
Speaker 1: Have you tried to reach them?
00:30:14
Speaker 9: No, because I'm concerned about paying on time. I'm like, okay, you want me to comply? I will comply. You want me?
00:30:22
Speaker 3: I will comply.
00:30:23
Speaker 14: I will just comply.
00:30:25
Speaker 9: Because I want to pay my bill on time and go on with my business.
00:30:28
Speaker 1: So how do you end up paying your bill?
00:30:31
Speaker 15: I use my card.
00:30:33
Speaker 1: Okay. So is the FOB, have they presented it as the FOB is the only way you can pay your bill now?
00:30:40
Speaker 12: By cash.
00:30:43
Speaker 9: If you are generally paid by cash and you go to Kroger or these other nine locations, they're have sent you a key fob and a letter that says, if you're going to be consistently paying my cash, we want you to pay this way and go to these locations.
00:31:01
Speaker 1: Well, then they need to be alerted to the fact that they have your account number wrong.
00:31:07
Speaker 9: Yes, but my thing is, after two days of trying, I feel like it's on purpose for you to comply to not pay cash. Cash means I have to hire someone the $ 10 billion company. I have to hire someone to pay to count the cash. This is why they're like, if I could just gaslight you for, I don't know, a couple of million dollars to use a California place and also an Anchorage, Kentucky place to have the cash from Indiana, it goes to these two places. That's what's on the information just for you to pay cash.
00:31:50
Speaker 6: This is gaslighting.
00:31:52
Speaker 9: You don't want to do cash anymore because with all the degrees and all the money, you should have made this kind of mistake. You'd rather roll your dice, in my opinion, to see who I can get to conform, to comply, and not pay cash anymore because I don't really want to employ anyone. I just want to use AI, automation, whatever.
00:32:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds like.
00:32:18
Speaker 9: You know?
00:32:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:32:19
Speaker 9: So I'm like, but at the same time, if that's what you're going to do, and other companies copy this, you need to say to your customers, I will protect your information, your checking account, your card, however you pay, like it's a bank. Because over and over again, we keep seeing where companies are being hacked, and we're left to scramble. Oh, wait a minute.
00:32:48
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
00:32:49
Speaker 5: You know, yeah.
00:32:50
Speaker 9: And people cannot afford it. This is how do I know that they're paying? They're putting pieces $ 20 here, $ 50 there to pay cash for a utility bill.
00:33:01
Speaker 1: Yeah. And thank you. Thank you for that. And I am so sorry for your frustration, because believe you me, I know exactly. I had a similar situation that happened. Thank you. I appreciate it. I had a similar situation. That happened over the weekend, and I was about ready to just scream. I mean, it is frustrating as all get out. But I want to look into that a little more. I certainly understand her frustration. I have not heard of these key fobs. And if they have the wrong account number, then she's right. What's the point? They should be made to correct that right away. But in terms of trying to force people into using a currency that they want you to use, I too would resist.
00:33:46
Speaker 4: Oh, I would too.
00:33:46
Speaker 1: That's not what I want to do.
00:33:47
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that.
00:33:48
Speaker 1: I keep seeing, you know, like when I pay my bills, I go in and I physically pay them online, but they always have go paperless or use auto pay.
00:34:00
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:34:00
Speaker 1: I will never.
00:34:01
Speaker 2: No, auto pay.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: No.
00:34:04
Speaker 2: I don't like that at all.
00:34:05
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
00:34:06
Speaker 1: And they're trying to force you into it and they put it up there on the screen every time that's on the land. Would you like to switch?
00:34:12
Speaker 9: No.
00:34:12
Speaker 7: And some will give you, In certain situations, oh, we'll give you a discount on this if you go auto pay.
00:34:18
Speaker 2: I don't want to go auto pay.
00:34:19
Speaker 1: Yeah. If you go paperless, there's one that I, now there is one that I like that I use because they do a good job with reminding me online. I don't get it. I think it's my cell phone bill. I don't get a paper bill, but that's okay. Yeah, mine is. It's paperless. I get a discount on my phone bill.
00:34:40
Speaker 2: I do, too.
00:34:41
Speaker 1: But those that want you to just do it for their convenience or to make it cheaper on them, no.
00:34:44
Speaker 8: No, no.
00:34:45
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.
00:34:46
Speaker 1: My thing is, what are you going to give me?
00:34:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do I get for it?
00:34:48
Speaker 1: What do I get?
00:34:49
Speaker 10: Nothing.
00:34:49
Speaker 2: Oh, nothing. Nothing. Just do it our way. That's all.
00:34:52
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. Again, I want to look into that key fob thing. I've never heard that. But then again, I don't pay cash.
00:35:00
Speaker 2: But if you want to, you should have the option.
00:35:01
Speaker 1: You should have the option still. There's no reason whatsoever.
00:35:05
Speaker 4: Not at all.
00:35:05
Speaker 10: None.
00:35:06
Speaker 1: So I get it. I really do get it. 317-480-1310. Laura, go ahead.
00:35:10
Speaker 4: How are you?
00:35:12
Speaker 8: I'm good.
00:35:13
Speaker 6: Well, I call for one thing, which you were talking about in the beginning, but this lady made me think about my AS bill. But first of all, I was saying that it was ironic that you all were talking about getting different people or getting those machines on the phone when you call in. My grandson sent me a reel last night and it had a man on there. He says, so they tell you to push one for English and then you end up with somebody in some foreign country.
00:35:41
Speaker 1: I love it. That is so true. Well, what kind of English are you talking about? You know, near English? I love that.
00:35:50
Speaker 6: Press one for English.
00:35:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, at your own risk.
00:35:54
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
00:35:55
Speaker 6: But this lady with the AES reminded me of mine last week. I have never been so frustrated in my entire life. I receive a disconnect notice from AES, and I'm like, what? And so I have two different houses. And I said, how is this? So I call them. because see, every time I go, I go online to pay my bill, pay both of my bills. But for the past month or so, I've not been able to get online because their system is down and they've turned it in, turned it in as far as my account goes. And so I would, they would send me to that thing, you know, where you could pay that. I don't know what they call it, but their system that you can pay, they'll connect you to it. So I did that. And then I get a disconnect notice for my other house.
00:36:48
Speaker 9: And I'm like, what the heck?
00:36:49
Speaker 6: So I call them. And so they were they were applying all my money to one house.
00:36:56
Speaker 9: Oh, I see.
00:36:56
Speaker 6: And I said, why would you do that when it's two different account numbers?
00:37:00
Speaker 1: Two different addresses and account numbers.
00:37:01
Speaker 13: Right.
00:37:02
Speaker 6: And I said, that's why I like to do it online because I get to choose my account number. I don't like working with you all because you jack it up.
00:37:09
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:37:09
Speaker 6: And so then they were going to straighten it out. This house was up for disconnect because all my money had gone to that. Well, we got to figure out how to put the money over there. I said, yeah, you do need to figure out how to split that because I don't have money to pay. That again, the other house is total electric. And I can't tell you how much my bills are over there. It's outrageous. It's not even a huge house at all. It's one story and it's total electric and it's running me eight and nine hundred dollars a month. And here's before last, I would get a refund because I was on the budget and I would get a refund up to seven hundred dollars for overpayment. Now, how did it triple like that?
00:37:48
Speaker 3: But.
00:37:49
Speaker 6: That's another story. But anyway, so it took me, I can't tell you how many people it took me to talk to, to get this.
00:37:55
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker 6: And so then she says, well, we have this thing called warm heart, warm home, something like that, that we can help you out. And since it's up for disconnect, so you don't have to pay that deposit. Cause I've never paid deposit on it cause I've had it for this long. And I said, okay. So all that was supposed to be taken care of. And so they had to put me back through that machine thing to pay this money. So they gave me a confirmation number. So then I hung up. And for some reason or another, the next morning it said, double check and make sure everything's okay. And so I did. But now the confirmation number that this thing gave me was different than the confirmation number it gave me yesterday. I know we've got a problem here. So I called back, and the lady says, well, I don't see your payment. And it usually goes automatically. I said, what do you mean you don't see the payment? I did this with you all yesterday. She says, well, it's not showing up, and it's usually right there. I said, well, I have two different confirmation numbers, but that's not my problem. You figure it out, because I'm not giving you any more money on this. This is ridiculous that you guys can't. I know I'm not the only person that has two houses in your escrow here. I know I'm not. And so... It took me forever to get them to figure that out and figure out where they put my money and why I have two confirmation numbers. I said, it's just ridiculous. I don't understand it. So now when you call, you don't even get a person. You get a machine now that you talk to first.
00:39:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:39:34
Speaker 1: It takes an actor. And thank you, Laura. I appreciate it. And thank you for sharing that frustration. It takes an act of Congress.
00:39:40
Speaker 4: It does.
00:39:41
Speaker 1: It does. To get a human.
00:39:43
Speaker 8: It really does.
00:39:43
Speaker 1: Because they want their bot to take care of your issues so that you don't have to bother A human. Now, a human might be six or seven different stages down the road.
00:39:53
Speaker 2: That's true.
00:39:54
Speaker 1: In your call. But and then they want you to ask for a call back.
00:40:00
Speaker 2: And here are six or seven stages of frustration.
00:40:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker 2: Tina, I got to tell you about a story.
00:40:05
Speaker 7: Someone that I know, they got a text from Citizens Gas to call them because they think that their meter might be broken. So they're saying to them and they need to schedule for, you know, repair replacements. Well, they called and let them know, yeah, we're not showing any gas usage since April in your house. So we figured the meter must be bad. Well, he explained that, no, all we have is a fireplace, a fire pit, and a furnace. Three gas things. So we haven't used any gas since April. But they insisted, oh, your meter must be broken. We got to replace it. Something's wrong with it.
00:40:41
Speaker 2: Said, no, no, no, no.
00:40:42
Speaker 7: We don't have anything gas that we're using now. But they wanted that money.
00:40:48
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
00:40:48
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
00:40:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when you when you call and then they say you're the problem.
00:40:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the problem.
00:40:54
Speaker 7: And he pointed out, no, we don't have we're using we got a fire pit fireplace and a furnace.
00:40:58
Speaker 2: We haven't used any since April.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: Something's got to change. And all these data centers going up, which probably are going to exacerbate the problem because more and more.
00:41:06
Speaker 2: I think so, too. I think so.
00:41:08
Speaker 10: Joe.
00:41:09
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's go to Joe.
00:41:11
Speaker 15: Joe.
00:41:11
Speaker 1: Joe, Joe, how are you?
00:41:14
Speaker 4: Hey, Tina, I'm going to throw you a curveball and change the subject.
00:41:17
Speaker 1: That's okay.
00:41:19
Speaker 4: I can hit a curve. This morning I got up. It was so beautiful outside. I grabbed my fishing poles and headed for Cicero.
00:41:28
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
00:41:31
Speaker 4: The fish aren't biting, but probably two shades darker.
00:41:35
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:41:37
Speaker 4: I was talking to a friend that gave me a call while I was out there fishing, and he said, hey, Joe. Did you get your $ 90? It's in my bank account. I said, $ 90 from who? It said from Donald J. Trump. What? Yeah. I got $ 90. I got an email from him saying it was from him. I said, no, I didn't get $ 90. And I don't expect to get $ 90. And this is where the Democrats need to get up off of their butts and get out in front of this stuff. so that we can see them. Jeffries, the rest of you, get up and get out there and start talking.
00:42:21
Speaker 1: They really do.
00:42:22
Speaker 3: It's so interesting for.
00:42:23
Speaker 4: You to talk about. And it's ridiculous that they haven't said anything.
00:42:28
Speaker 1: They haven't said a word that I know of. I was at the luncheon most of the morning, so I haven't seen anything or push alerts. I haven't seen any outrage. I haven't seen or heard. You make a really, really, really good point. Where are the Democrats on this? Because this is nothing to me, and maybe I'm overstepping my bet, to me it's nothing more than a political stunt.
00:42:50
Speaker 4: That's all it is.
00:42:51
Speaker 1: To try to garner favor heading into the midterms.
00:42:55
Speaker 4: To make people think that the $ 5, 000 is on its way.
00:42:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, to make you think, yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker 4: All you got to do is vote for a Republican, get us in office, and I'll give you $ 5, 000. There you go.
00:43:05
Speaker 15: I'm not going to.
00:43:06
Speaker 4: Give it to everybody. And oh, by the way, I didn't say bomb... San Diego and Los Angeles. What I said, you go in there and try doing that and you will go catch hell, Iran.
00:43:19
Speaker 3: What?
00:43:20
Speaker 4: That's not what you said, Donald.
00:43:22
Speaker 1: No, it's not. That's not what you said. You said something pretty important because there were some exclusions to this $ 90 payment. Not all Americans on Medicare are going to get this payment because they've divided it up into certain plans if you're on Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Just like I, you know, he says all Americans will get $ 5, 000.
00:43:44
Speaker 10: All.
00:43:44
Speaker 1: That's what he says. But I just wonder if he might not have that parsed out to blue states. I mean, look at these states that were in dire need of money that were hit hard, like California, by disaster. And he was holding up FEMA funds because California didn't vote for him. It was a blue state.
00:44:02
Speaker 9: Yeah.
00:44:03
Speaker 1: So you never know how he's going to categorize what he does and this, or if he's even going to make good on the promise. I don't believe that at all.
00:44:13
Speaker 4: I don't believe it. And you've got a hurricane on the way, Donald.
00:44:18
Speaker 1: Is that the hurricane? What's the storm's name? I think it starts with an I. Starts with an I.
00:44:26
Speaker 4: Something, something, something.
00:44:28
Speaker 10: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:44:30
Speaker 4: That's funny, too. Yeah. Something like that.
00:44:39
Speaker 1: I-S-A-I-A-S. I-S-A-I-A-S. I-S-A-I-A-S. Forgive me, because I need to know what that is. But anyway, Hurricane... The path.
00:44:51
Speaker 4: You being a news person, you ought to be able to pronounce that.
00:44:54
Speaker 1: You know what? I'm going to go to the pronouncer and ask. Thank you very much. Uh... Let me see here. I'm going to find out right now. Why do they make these hard names anyway? Whatever happened to Beulah and Bertha?
00:45:12
Speaker 4: They don't use those type words anymore. Hurricane Tina, Hurricane James, Hurricane Joe, all of those hurricanes are already gone. Hmm. But he's got a hurricane on the way.
00:45:30
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:32
Speaker 4: And those people are going to need help. Mm-hmm.
00:45:35
Speaker 1: He say yes?
00:45:36
Speaker 2: Is it yes?
00:45:38
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:39
Speaker 2: He say yes? Okay, he say yes.
00:45:41
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:43
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a new one.
00:45:44
Speaker 4: He say yes.
00:45:45
Speaker 2: He say yes.
00:45:46
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:47
Speaker 4: That's what I heard her say, yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:45:51
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:53
Speaker 4: It's a hard word, a hard tornado to say.
00:45:56
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
00:45:58
Speaker 1: I hope it's not going to, yeah, Isaias.
00:46:00
Speaker 2: Isaias. Is that the first one of the season, I think?
00:46:03
Speaker 1: No, they usually go, a lot of them just die out there in the Atlantic.
00:46:07
Speaker 2: Right, but as far as coming.
00:46:09
Speaker 1: Towards the land. Well, they're already down to the eyes, though, so it can't be the first. Don't they go alphabetically?
00:46:16
Speaker 2: They do, but maybe they haven't reached the states.
00:46:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's probably.
00:46:20
Speaker 2: They've been out to sea.
00:46:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, most of them die out.
00:46:23
Speaker 7: Because I think I heard that our season was kind of sparse with hurricanes.
00:46:27
Speaker 2: Not that I'm complaining.
00:46:28
Speaker 4: And they're expecting for that to hit Alabama down at Orange, was it Orange Beach or whatever down in Alabama?
00:46:36
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
00:46:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. So anyway, the fact is, Tina, go ahead and do your one o'clock thing and get out and go fire that grill up and cook some food.
00:46:51
Speaker 1: I think I will. I think I will. I think I'm most certain.
00:46:54
Speaker 12: Thank you, Joe.
00:46:55
Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. Thank you.
00:46:56
Speaker 4: Thank you.
00:46:58
Speaker 1: You too.
00:46:58
Speaker 2: 3 1 7 4 8.
00:46:59
Speaker 1: 0 13 10 3 1 7 4 8 0 13 10. Is this Genevieve? Genevieve. Genevieve, you there? This is Josephine.
00:47:04
Speaker 2: Oh, Josephine.
00:47:05
Speaker 8: Okay.
00:47:05
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
00:47:09
Speaker 12: I'm thinking about my mother's name. Anyway, um, Yeah, I want to talk about a spiritual battle going on instead of... I know everything on the outward appearance seems, you know, but.
00:47:34
Speaker 12: I know you know the story of Jesus going out into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, right?
00:47:41
Speaker 4: Okay. Okay, so the devil has the nerve to say if.
00:47:47
Speaker 12: If thou be the son of God, command these stones that they be made.
00:47:52
Speaker 10: Bread, right?
00:47:52
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
00:47:54
Speaker 12: Now, you know, God is not stupid. He knows who he is. So he said, get behind me. Okay, so the same thing with Trump. He is taking something that's scriptural. Like, I think somebody said he's the chosen one, or somebody said taking something that's scriptural But using it to his advantage, justifying hate, and using scripture to try to back it up, if that makes any sense. Oh, yeah. So that's what's going on now. A lot of people, and I don't want to judge, but a lot of people are using that same tactic with him, saying, well, we already been, abortion is wrong.
00:48:41
Speaker 10: And homosexuality is wrong.
00:48:43
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not going to argue whether it's wrong or right. That's my personal opinion. I don't agree with some things. But to take a few things that people consider to be sin and try to say that's the worst things in the world and we got to ride on those things. But everything else is not as bad like a lie or a lie. are adultery or murder. Those aren't as bad, which is absolutely ridiculous. If you're going to call C & C, call it across the board and don't just stick a couple of things out. People are taking... the scriptures to justify hate and there's no justification for it. This man was on TV on, I don't know, another station, TLC, but another time, and he was talking about how some man, a politician or something, said he hates Muslims or something. He hates Muslims.
00:49:38
Speaker 10: That's what he said.
00:49:40
Speaker 12: Then this man got on the radio and said, well, he was just in his flesh. And if you know anything about the Holy Ghost, if you're in your flesh, you repent and you apologize. So I said, well, if he's in his flesh, I caused it. If he's in his flesh, why doesn't he call and apologize to these Muslims and say, I am so sorry. I was in my flesh. I was wrong. I do not hate you. Hate is a strong word to say to anybody. But this man tried to justify hate. To get his point across. And there's no justification. Jesus is not behind it. He's not behind any of this corruption. He's not behind. And we as the church, we have got to pray. This has been going on for 250 years. We need to pray that we got the Holy Ghost, that racism be gone. cast out people in this country. We need to pray about that and ask Jesus to take that away, because Jesus has nothing to do with slavery. Jesus had nothing to do with.
00:50:45
Speaker 5: Lynching.
00:50:45
Speaker 12: Jesus has nothing to do with none of that. And people are trying to justify that stuff. Somebody said, well, that was a necessary evil. I'm like, what? You're going to justify Jesus has something to Something to do with that? And I can understand why Muslims feel the way they do. If you're a black man and your mom, your great-great-grandmama got murdered, or not great-great, a cousin got murdered, or somebody you know got lynched or sold into slavery, what would you do? Would you go to Jesus?
00:51:23
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
00:51:24
Speaker 12: And they say, well, Jesus did all, you know, backing that up, talking about that's okay. And I heard one man say, like I said before, he said, well, you know, The guy wants the the the the races to be separate because he going all the way back to Genesis. Well, they built a car, Babel, and he separated the races because he wanted to be together. He separated the races because they wanted to be like God. They were already together.
00:51:59
Speaker 15: Yeah.
00:52:00
Speaker 1: And you know what? You know, you made a good point.
00:52:02
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:52:04
Speaker 1: Talking about the history of this practice because of using the Bible to validate yourself, you know, validate yourself and your cruelty and your, you know, your heartlessness and basically killing in.
00:52:17
Speaker 12: A lot of ways when it came to.
00:52:19
Speaker 1: Yeah that has been yeah that's sad.
00:52:26
Speaker 12: That is nothing but the devil.
00:52:29
Speaker 16: That's what that is and people are brainwashed in that no that's okay that's okay I appreciate your call and yeah nothing that but I really do like the point that this is steeped so deeply in history dating back to probably even prior to that, but most recent history, 250.
00:52:52
Speaker 1: Years, and a little bit more with slavery, using the Bible to justify and to control people, things of that nature. So she's absolutely correct. But no, Donald Trump is not the chosen one.
00:53:05
Speaker 2: No, no, he's not.
00:53:06
Speaker 1: Those that want to believe it, more power to you.
00:53:08
Speaker 11: He's not.
00:53:09
Speaker 3: 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310.
00:53:09
Speaker 1: George, go ahead. How are you? Thank you.
00:53:16
Speaker 17: Hey, Tina, how you doing?
00:53:17
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
00:53:18
Speaker 1: Doing good, yes, I can.
00:53:20
Speaker 17: Okay, I had Eric over there cracking up a minute ago. I know that you're on social media talking about Trump, talking about he could still go after Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. You know. But what I wanted to say was, who was the alien lizard lady standing next to him? The reptilian. Because I looked at her face and I looked.
00:53:45
Speaker 5: At her skin.
00:53:46
Speaker 17: She didn't look human. I'm just saying. Have you seen her yet?
00:53:50
Speaker 12: Have you seen it?
00:53:51
Speaker 1: No, no, because I try not to look at too many pictures or images of him. I read about it and I might even listen without looking. But I did not see it. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt that somebody was looking at him.
00:54:05
Speaker 17: Well, she was standing right next to him in a red dress, if you go on social media. And he was sitting in the Oval Office. She was standing right up. She was making a comment about.
00:54:13
Speaker 4: We're.
00:54:13
Speaker 17: Doing certain things for people, and people don't understand what we're doing. It was some kind of weird stuff she was talking about, and he was making a comment about, I could still have Joe Biden, Clinton, and Obama prosecuted or go after him, and I told him no. But if you look at this lady in the red dress, she looks like a lizard person. And I'm not trying to be, like, sci-fi, conspiracy theory, or anything like that. But if you take a look at her and look at her skin and how her body, the way she's staying... She's not, she don't look human.
00:54:44
Speaker 1: So you think Trump's hanging out with aliens in the White House?
00:54:48
Speaker 4: You know what?
00:54:50
Speaker 17: I'm not going to be a conspiracy theorist, and I've heard things about Area 51 and all this stuff, but do I believe in the existence of other life on different planets and different dimensions?
00:55:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker 17: And I've heard stories about different presidents who had negotiations with people from other planets, solar systems and stuff. She did not look, I mean, I'm looking closer at her and I'm looking at her eyes and I'm looking at the way her skin is and she does not look human. Something about her looked like a reptilian.
00:55:22
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take a look at it.
00:55:23
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm not trying to call or say she is or say allegedly for the purposes of the channel and everybody that she is.
00:55:30
Speaker 1: That's unusual. Yeah, that's unusual, George. Thank you. Thank you for the call. That's a little bit unusual because he prides himself on hiring only pretty people. You know, that's very true. He really likes to just hire pretty people. So we let's take a quick break right here. We'll be right back.
00:55:55
Speaker 13: WTLC AM, W236 CR, Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:56:13
Speaker 1: And we are back with Community Connection. I wanted to make a correction. I was just assuming, because I really hadn't been paying attention to Hurricane Issei. He say he is. He say he is. But it looks like it's coming up, traveling north from the Gulf.
00:56:27
Speaker 2: From the Gulf.
00:56:28
Speaker 1: Not from the Atlantic, from the Gulf.
00:56:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the Gulf.
00:56:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gulf Coast. Of Mexico.
00:56:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico. That would affect our weather. That could affect us in the future.
00:56:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it could be a straight beeline.
00:56:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Exactly.
00:56:41
Speaker 1: Indiana, because it looks like it's coming up through, well, yeah, right. Oh, my goodness. Almost straight up to Indiana coast. Arkansas, yeah.
00:56:51
Speaker 7: So depending on if there's a weather system to the northwest at some point that would force it to go more east, it could be coming this way.
00:56:58
Speaker 2: You see that?
00:56:59
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:56:59
Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like it's just marching straight up the middle and Indiana's right in its path.
00:57:04
Speaker 2: So far, yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker 1: By the time it will get to Indiana, I'm sure it will have severely weakened. But, you know, some of those lingering effects can last for a few days.
00:57:14
Speaker 4: They can.
00:57:15
Speaker 2: They certainly can.
00:57:16
Speaker 9: Wow.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
00:57:17
Speaker 7: And of course, the hurricane's name is Isaiah. At least that's the way it's said. How'd you say it again?
00:57:25
Speaker 1: Isaías.
00:57:26
Speaker 2: Isaías. That's Spanish for Isaiah. One of our listeners shared that with me.
00:57:30
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, listener.
00:57:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. But yeah, this doesn't look like it's the East Coast. It's not coastal at all. I mean, it is coastal, but it's not East Coast. It's not coming out of the Atlantic. It's coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.
00:57:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had some storms come from the Gulf that have created some havoc. In the past, too.
00:57:47
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:57:48
Speaker 2: So got to watch that one.
00:57:50
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
00:57:51
Speaker 1: Indeed. Katrina, right?
00:57:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, Katrina. That was horrible.
00:57:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:57:55
Speaker 1: Catastrophic.
00:57:56
Speaker 2: It certainly was.
00:57:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. Stacey, go ahead. How are you?
00:58:02
Speaker 3: Hi, Tina.
00:58:03
Speaker 10: How are you?
00:58:03
Speaker 13: I'm well.
00:58:04
Speaker 1: Thank you.
00:58:05
Speaker 3: Hey, good.
00:58:05
Speaker 4: I was calling in reference to the young lady that called about the AES fob.
00:58:11
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
00:58:13
Speaker 4: I also... received it, and I called just one to make sure that it was authentic. So many scams going on. But two, the account number didn't match, and they advised me that many in the first batch that went out were incorrect and disabled. So that might explain.
00:58:37
Speaker 1: Oh, well, she didn't get the right explanation.
00:58:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't work. But I heard you ask her, did she call AES? And I thought she said no, but she wanted to comply. But I think I would have went like I did. I called AES first. I would have called you second.
00:58:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good. That's a smart sequence.
00:59:00
Speaker 4: That's your best line of defense. Ask them what's going on.
00:59:04
Speaker 1: Ask them exactly what's going on and what can be done. But that's, that makes sense what you just said, because you know, she probably is in the first batch and they, you know, they probably have to reissue or correct or something.
00:59:16
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:59:17
Speaker 1: That could have saved her some time too, you know, trying.
00:59:19
Speaker 4: To force some energy and hopefully, you know, cause she was very heated and upset about it could have saved some of that too. But I had to get beyond calling them the artificial intelligence that you first get on the line when you call them. I have a disdain for that when I call the different places. But I will say I had to call Apple about a week ago and got artificial intelligence, and it changed my whole perspective. It was better than talking to a human.
00:59:49
Speaker 1: Oh, really?
00:59:50
Speaker 4: I said, young lady, you are doing a wonderful job. I appreciate it. She said, well, thank you. Aim to please.
00:59:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow.
00:59:58
Speaker 4: But that's all I was calling just to give a little clarity that I guess eventually many of us will get them. But, you know, many in that first batch were, you know, not correct. So AES deactivated them, and that would cause them not to work if you try to pay using them.
01:00:15
Speaker 1: That makes, wow, tremendous sense. So hopefully that gives some clarity to our caller as well. So that, you know, yeah, thank you. Thank you for that.
01:00:24
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
01:00:25
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Stacey.
01:00:26
Speaker 11: Yeah.
01:00:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when in doubt, I mean, it is a good idea to always check with them first.
01:00:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
01:00:33
Speaker 1: Because that's the first I'd ever heard of that. I don't know anything about it. Now we know a little bit more, but I didn't know anything about key fobs. I had no idea.
01:00:41
Speaker 2: I'm clueless on that, of course.
01:00:43
Speaker 1: Let's go to William Duke Oliver. Counselor Oliver, how are you today?
01:00:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, just fine.
01:00:50
Speaker 14: I'm at church here, Reverend Martin and Reverend Bates. It's going to come up on our Thursday here Bible study.
01:00:59
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
01:01:00
Speaker 1: Thursday Bible study.
01:01:02
Speaker 14: Mail-in ballots that were sent out to persons yesterday. At least my wife got one. I didn't get one.
01:01:08
Speaker 5: I don't know.
01:01:08
Speaker 14: Some question about the president wanted to nationalize the postal service to pull out ballots out of the mail, things like that, set aside. Is there an update on that? I'm going to speak with Sister here about that also.
01:01:23
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything on it.
01:01:25
Speaker 14: Good afternoon.
01:01:26
Speaker 4: Hi.
01:01:26
Speaker 8: A lot of the Democratic parties are getting mail-in ballots automatically sent to their homes. In the past, you always had to request a mail-in ballot. Why, since he, Brons, submitted our voter registration to the president, why now we're getting automatic mail-in ballots when you always had to request a mail-in ballot? Our absentee mail-in ballots, now they're coming to the Democratic Party automatically.
01:01:59
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're, I don't know.
01:02:03
Speaker 8: That's something we need.
01:02:06
Speaker 1: To be aware of. Something we need to find out more about, because I think I got one. If it looks like, and I was like, I didn't request this. Why is this?
01:02:14
Speaker 8: Exactly, because Ron submitted our voter registration. To the president when they requested him by state.
01:02:22
Speaker 1: I think that was Diego Morales that did that, according to Julia Vaughn. Diego, because he's the chief. He's the state's chief election officer. So he surrendered the voter rolls to the Trump administration. It was Diego Morales. We do know. from our visit with Julia Vaughn a couple of days ago that he did do that.
01:02:45
Speaker 8: That's true. So therefore, they're sending them out automatically with Democrats to mail-in ballots. We're suggesting that people are— I' m part of Win With Black Women, and the congresspeople that are on our meetings on Sunday nights are saying go to the polls and vote because they're going to be pulling mail-in ballots. It's not going to be counted. So we need to go to the polls and vote.
01:03:09
Speaker 1: So go physically and don't be fooled by the paper.
01:03:11
Speaker 3: Physically.
01:03:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be fooled.
01:03:13
Speaker 9: That's right.
01:03:13
Speaker 8: Well, we've been talking— Because we always have to do the mail-in. We always have to request a mail-in ballot.
01:03:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:03:19
Speaker 8: They just don't send them to you. And it has to be a reason, because in the past, when you called in for a mail-in ballot, it had to be a legitimate reason why you could not go out and vote.
01:03:30
Speaker 1: So you think you're sending them to people so that people will just take the easy way out and mail it in, and then they can— Exactly. And it's pulled later.
01:03:39
Speaker 8: That's right. And they're not going to count those mail-in ballots.
01:03:42
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. I threw mine out. Yeah, I threw mine out.
01:03:49
Speaker 8: Yes, because if you look at the postmark and the permit that's on those mail-ins, those ones that they're sending them out, and you can check with the postal service for that permit number, and you would see if it's legit or it's not. Okay. So people need to be aware of that.
01:04:07
Speaker 1: Thank you, yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.
01:04:09
Speaker 8: And I used to work for the postal service, so I know.
01:04:12
Speaker 3: Please.
01:04:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
01:04:13
Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
01:04:13
Speaker 1: So you say there's a code.
01:04:16
Speaker 8: There is a permit number on that mail imbalance that was sent out mail. And you've got to check the permit number through the postal service to see if it's legit. And that's how they're going to discard those mail imbalance because that permit number may not be legit.
01:04:33
Speaker 1: Have you did the one that you say you got one? Did you do the comparison? Was it legit?
01:04:39
Speaker 8: Bill, let me I haven't compared it yet, but let me hold that mail imbalance. Oh, you didn't put it in the car already, but yeah, you have to, you have to verify them and down in Brazil and all those that have been on our zoom meetings are saying, check them because if your state sent them in, they may not be legit.
01:04:59
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:00
Speaker 1: Good point. But you know what?
01:05:04
Speaker 8: Telling us to be aware of all of that.
01:05:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:05:07
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Thank you. I really, really, really appreciate that because that's, I thought it was strange that, you know. So you're thinking there could be sending out counterfeit voter registration mail-in. Yeah, without the right. They all could be counterfeit unless you request it.
01:05:26
Speaker 2: Unless you requested it.
01:05:27
Speaker 1: Throw it out.
01:05:28
Speaker 2: Throw it out.
01:05:28
Speaker 1: Unless you requested a mail-in ballot. If one just came to you, don't take it as is. Throw it away unless you requested it. If you requested it, then by all means but yeah I thought that was a little strange I wish I wouldn't have thrown mine away though because I was like what is this.
01:05:47
Speaker 8: Thing because there's a return permit number on there and that's how they're going to get past the court system with this false you know if it's not a legit permit number all those ballots are going to be thrown out.
01:06:03
Speaker 1: All because someone can't stand to lose.
01:06:05
Speaker 8: Yes, and the national, and like I say, I'm part of Win With Black Women, and we have been on Zoom meetings every single Sunday night trying to educate people on these mail-in ballots. And the permit number that's going out is permit number 593. And see, we have to check to make sure that's a legitimate permit number, because if not, every one of those ballots are going to be thrown out.
01:06:32
Speaker 11: Hmm.
01:06:33
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:06:33
Speaker 1: And you check it against the post office?
01:06:36
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:06:38
Speaker 1: So where on the postal website do you go to check that?
01:06:41
Speaker 8: You can even call the main office, because all of them are going to be going to 309 West Washington Street. That's what's on there, ZIP Code 46204. You can call the main post office on South Street and ask them, is their permit number 593 legitimate? And they'll tell you who it's registered to.
01:07:07
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:07:13
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:07:13
Speaker 9: All right.
01:07:14
Speaker 1: Good, good info. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
01:07:16
Speaker 3: Yes, please.
01:07:17
Speaker 1: See if we can find it. Yes, indeed. Absolutely.
01:07:20
Speaker 11: Absolutely.
01:07:20
Speaker 18: Because you always had to pass, and I state, if I'm not correct, our state of Indiana registration, voters law saying you must request an absentee ballot, not get it automatically.
01:07:33
Speaker 1: No, the state's never just given them to us.
01:07:35
Speaker 3: Uh-uh.
01:07:36
Speaker 10: No.
01:07:37
Speaker 8: So be aware.
01:07:38
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:07:38
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's great. And certainly something we can look up. Permit number 593, legitimate mail permit. Okay. It looks like Mr. Russell.
01:07:50
Speaker 11: Mr.
01:07:50
Speaker 1: Russell, go ahead.
01:07:51
Speaker 2: There we are.
01:07:53
Speaker 4: Hey, folks.
01:07:55
Speaker 10: The young lady that just spoke, she's right on, you know, because you have to request an absentee ballot. vote by mail ballot from a Marion County election board if you're in Marion County and other counties I presume have similar situations. So that's something that definitely needs to be checked out. These folks, it's amazing, you know, in the 250th year since the Declaration of Independence, we have a president that's trying everything he can to Unduly remain in office. His record doesn't qualify him to remain in office, in my opinion, but that's just me, I guess. But it's really amazing that the list that these folks will go to to try to subvert and suppress racism. But I also wanted to say that I just got a notice from Mr. Glenn Powell about a walk and talk program they're having Saturday morning, this coming Saturday morning at 7.30 at.
01:09:19
Speaker 10: Riverside Park, where it says calling all men, boys and whatever, but they're going to have a walk and talk conversation and exercise program. And for more information, the number is 317. Let me check this real quick. 317-345-3879, Glenn Powell, for more information.
01:09:59
Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you.
01:10:03
Speaker 10: So people are coming together, and that's a great thing because that's what we have to do.
01:10:08
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:10:08
Speaker 10: In the face of this AI, which I think should be SI, which stands for support... intelligence rather than artificial intelligence because if you support intelligence, that includes natural intelligence, which is what we need to be supporting.
01:10:33
Speaker 11: Indeed.
01:10:35
Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you, Mr.
01:10:36
Speaker 4: Russell.
01:10:36
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you. Ricky, go ahead. Oh, you were at last night's meeting about Metroblocks.
01:10:43
Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
01:10:45
Speaker 3: Out at Douglas Park, the TV station was there. The house was full. We had a Lakeisha Jackson was there. I think Porter was there. Some of the other guys are talking about how these tax abatements are coming down for this company and kept raising the same thing. When we had the interview a couple months ago about if the gentleman, if the public didn't want it, they was not going to build it. But they were not there. They sent somebody else to try to make us feel good. But it was a smokescreen. 40-year tax abatement. And I said, 40 years? I said, at this time of a lot of people's lives that live over here, they won't even be here probably another 60 years and got to deal with a crazy tax increase that's going to hit us. And the lady couldn't really explain what was going on, but it made me so mad. Our councilman was there, Mr. Ron Gibson. This is the first time I'm going to have to bust up my Democratic ticket in a long time because I can't take it. And the only one in that room that was upset about the smoke screen that we got told.
01:12:05
Speaker 5: To us.
01:12:07
Speaker 3: It was a full house.
01:12:08
Speaker 1: Good, good.
01:12:11
Speaker 3: And then she told us they're going to make a decision, I think the 21st of this month, whether it's a go or a nay. And then all the money... that they have, it's donating them. If they walk away, she couldn't answer who's going to get caught. One more other thing, I'll let y'all go, of the people that checks our water and our soil through the state, they said that land is contaminated with this, this, this. It's going to be privatized through Metro Block. Now, y'all figure that out. If it ain't a smoke screen, I don't know. And Mayor Hoff said I need to be called on the carpet about this because he's wrong on it. Yeah. He's wrong, he's wrong, he's wrong.
01:12:49
Speaker 1: But what's the status of the lawsuit, do you know?
01:12:54
Speaker 3: She couldn't say. They say it was still pending. She couldn't say. She was just like a person there, just there, okay, this is what's going to happen, this is what's going to happen. But basically what she was telling us last night, at the 21st when they have this other meeting, it's supposed to be a done deal, and even the one that they're building down on the south side of Decatur Township.
01:13:13
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
01:13:15
Speaker 3: So this is a nightmare. Yeah, it is.
01:13:18
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate, too, and thank you. Thank you, Ricky. It's unfortunate, too, that the measure passed by the city county council isn't retroactive about the moratorium on, yeah, because that would have been really, really helpful.
01:13:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got those in under the radar, basically.
01:13:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
01:13:38
Speaker 1: And I understand the anger and frustration there, too. I don't always understand. You know, what people are most concerned about is what they're going to have to pay.
01:13:47
Speaker 5: Exactly.
01:13:47
Speaker 1: In a couple of ways. Basically, the utilities, but, you know, just pay in terms of what's in their neighborhood. Water usage, how's that going to be affected? All of that. There's too much. It's unexplained. I'm glad he went, and I'm glad it was a packed house.
01:14:02
Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely.
01:14:02
Speaker 1: Because that means the pressure's still on, and so... Keep doing it.
01:14:06
Speaker 2: People have not forgotten.
01:14:07
Speaker 12: What does he say?
01:14:07
Speaker 1: I got to break up my Democratic ticket. I said, go ahead.
01:14:12
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
01:14:12
Speaker 1: Break it up. Hey, but that's the democratic system.
01:14:15
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
01:14:16
Speaker 1: And at work. And if you feel as if someone in charge of representing you has not fully represented you, then you do not put them back in office.
01:14:26
Speaker 2: That's right.
01:14:27
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:14:27
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. It's as simple as it goes. And I just love the way he said it. I'm not laughing, but it just tickled me how passionate he was. Like, darn it, I got to break up my team.
01:14:37
Speaker 2: Very much so.
01:14:38
Speaker 1: Because I can't vote for him again. And it was... But that's democracy at work. It is. I keep saying that. Democracy at work indeed. Let us switch now to our friend from the Indianapolis Recorder. On this Thursday, Danny Bridges with sports. Last time we spoke with Danny, he was a little under the weather. So, Danny, we're going to check up on you today. How are you feeling?
01:15:09
Speaker 10: Well.
01:15:09
Speaker 5: I do feel better. I'm not a hundred percent, but I feel better than I did last time we talked.
01:15:14
Speaker 11: That's for sure.
01:15:15
Speaker 1: Okay. Not a hundred percent. So was it bronchitis? Did you say that?
01:15:20
Speaker 5: You know, I, I, I still can't figure out what's going on. Uh, try to get a doctor's appointment in America today. You know, I mean, look, and it's not their fault that I'm under the weather. I feel better. Like I said, but, uh, I think I have a compromised immune system. I'm old.
01:15:40
Speaker 11: I'm cranky. I'm dehydrated.
01:15:42
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of good stuff working against me, but feeling a lot better than I did last week, and I plan on resting here for a while, and we'll get it back into check, but still able to look at things around me in terms of sports and wonder why and laugh a little bit, scratch my head a little bit. So, you know, there's that.
01:16:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, there definitely is that. So have you been able to get out much or are you still staying in pretty much?
01:16:16
Speaker 5: A little bit, a little bit. I'm a little bit guarded. You know, I don't know if I'm germy or not, but feeling better. Thanks for asking. And, you know, I looked in the mirror this morning. I said, gosh, you don't feel good, but you look good.
01:16:31
Speaker 4: So that was great.
01:16:33
Speaker 5: That was inspirational.
01:16:35
Speaker 1: Okay, I love it, love it, love it. Well, one of your favorite things, other than auto racing, to talk about, NBA basketball, it's back. Last night, the preseason. The preseason, the Pacers are in Ames, Iowa.
01:16:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Tyrese Halliburton placation tour went to Iowa. They took the court from Indianapolis. They took the stat crew. I'm like, really? What's all this about? Well, I think it's about an extension, but that's down the road, and we can talk about that some other time, contractually speaking. But I thought that there were a couple moments that caught my eye. He addressed the crowd, and he walked out with a microphone to midcourt to speak, and noticed a little gait in his walk that is not normal for him. Obviously, you know, comparing him pre-injury to where he's at now. He did play 16 minutes total last night. And I'm glad to see that there was a minutes restriction. When I wrote about this a week or so ago, you know, he had said at media day, no restrictions, no restrictions. I thought, well, that's not realistic. And it's good to see that people who are much smarter about medical science than I am, than he is as well, have stepped in and said, this is how we're going.
01:17:57
Speaker 11: To do it.
01:17:58
Speaker 5: This is exhibition to begin with. We're not going to worry about, you know, wins and losses and aims Iowa or anywhere else for that matter, from a preseason perspective. And they controlled how much he was on the floor. Didn't see an explosiveness. Didn't expect to. I did see him move around relatively well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens when he's under fire and trying to push off on that foot and, do the types of things that we were accustomed to him doing prior to that horrific injury. So I guess you have to say it's a good sign that he was out there moving around, um, you know, as opposed to where it was, you know, as they said over 400 days ago, since he played competitive basketball. So all the best to him, fingers crossed, uh, Keep a watchful eye upon it. But in no way, shape, or form is this thing out of the woods, in my opinion.
01:18:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit of a, what do you call it, a little bit of a gate, I guess. A little bit.
01:19:05
Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't dramatic, but I noticed it because I was looking for it. The same way I look for it with Victor Oladipo after his injury, the same way Daniel Jones looks at times. I mean, I guess, you know, we take for granted these guys are, you know, young and they work hard at rehab and they have the luxury of, you know, great surgeons, great therapists, great doctors, you just name it. And you think, oh, they'll be okay. Well, it's a process. And I hope for his sake, personally, it goes well. Cause if it goes well for him, I think it'll go well for the Pacers. They, uh, they have some interesting parts that are back. Um, time will tell. I still think, uh, they need a legitimate backup point guard. I still think it would be nice to see somebody who could defend on the wing, but, uh, you know, look, it's always easy in October to wish for things for Christmas.
01:20:01
Speaker 11: Right.
01:20:02
Speaker 5: But I will simply say that they, uh, it didn't surprise me last night. I think I've seen what I have become accustomed to out of that core group, but it was good to see him on the floor.
01:20:15
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:20:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:20:16
Speaker 1: Didn't seem winded at all. I mean, he, you know, cause there's a lot to run it up and down. Yeah.
01:20:24
Speaker 5: I do believe that, you know, there is a difference even preseason and regular season, but certainly practice and preseason even. So, The needle's moving the right way. Let's hope it continues. I wish him nothing but good things. Seems like an affable, good-hearted young man. And even if he wasn't, you don't want anybody to be hurt in athletics.
01:20:46
Speaker 1: I heard some folks talking this morning that Braden Smith was booed at the arena. Is that correct? What was up with that?
01:20:56
Speaker 5: Well, Iowa State played Purdue last night. last year, but I think what the year before at it and that arena, look, that guy has got more out of what athletic talent he doesn't have. There's a weird statement than anybody I've ever seen, but at the collegiate level, I might add, but he also has had a knack to rub people the wrong way from time to time, whether that's part of his personality, whether that's part of the way he approaches the game, what have you. There were some people in the crowd that remember those things. And, you know, we're talking about a college arena. We're talking about a college crowd mostly. So there were 14,000 people there. The student section was 8,000. Those are the numbers reported. I have no proof or idea of such. But the point is somebody in the crowd remembered him, and they weren't thrilled about it.
01:21:50
Speaker 11: But, you know what, that's okay.
01:21:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just certainly a sidebar. Nothing that impacted or whatever the game. Braden Smith, of course, former Boilermaker.
01:22:00
Speaker 5: I don't look for him to contribute to the Pacers this year. I think most of his time will be spent with the G League affiliate, but you never know. You never know what can happen in sports, but I'll give him credit to get to where he's at this point is a remarkable accomplishment, in my opinion, as far as the grit, the determination, and, you know, what he has to do to make up for a lack of physical talent.
01:22:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:22:29
Speaker 1: So your Colts were in jolly old England on Sunday, Sunday morning. And what say you about that performance?
01:22:39
Speaker 5: They won.
01:22:41
Speaker 1: They won.
01:22:42
Speaker 5: I would say they're fortunate that the opposition, unfortunately, had a couple of injuries during the game. And I'm going to leave that part alone. I thought when I talk about injuries, I want players to be healthy.
01:22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. We don't want anybody hurt.
01:22:58
Speaker 5: But they made their third string quarterback. They'd be in the cold. Secondary look better probably than he is. Uh, they did win the game. A couple of things stuck out to me. Of course, Buckner, uh, played well again. Uh, Obviously, he's playing for a new contract. I hope that he can remain healthy for his after-football years as far as his neck and his neurological health is concerned. I was impressed with him, though. I thought that he was a difference maker. I thought that at times the Colts' defense as a whole, specifically the pass rush, showed a little bit of– pedigree which we haven't seen a lot of historically but the bottom line is as we sit here today there are two ensued only a game behind jacksonville in the division and considering how things started and considering some of the things we thought we might see and didn't uh and the injury thing as well they're probably pretty happy as they head to pittsburgh this weekend.
01:24:06
Speaker 1: What do you think uh the steelers are they've had a couple of problems here and there uh I don't know. Steelers, Colts, what do you think?
01:24:14
Speaker 5: Well, Steelers have a prominent quarterback. Aaron Rodgers is no longer the Aaron Rodgers that we all used to enjoy watching. And, you know, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. There's no question about that. But he can't move. So if the Colts can't sack him three or four times this Sunday, they might as well just give up as far as a pass rush is concerned. Because I don't think his offensive line is that great. He has being Rogers. So I think they've got a good chance to get a road win. I really do. In fact, I'd be surprised if the Colts don't win a close ball game this weekend.
01:24:51
Speaker 15: Really?
01:24:53
Speaker 5: I said, I'll probably get.
01:24:54
Speaker 4: Beat 38 to three.
01:24:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I hope you're wrong on that.
01:24:57
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:24:58
Speaker 5: I think, I think they do have a shot to win this ball game because the Pittsburgh is a, They're just not impressive as an offense. Now, perhaps I'm wrong about all this. I was wrong once.
01:25:14
Speaker 10: I can't remember when it was.
01:25:15
Speaker 5: You'll have to remind me. But seriously, I'd be surprised if they don't. I'd be surprised if they don't win a close ball game. And a lot of people are like, oh, I'm not so sure about that. Well, I can understand why they'd feel that way, too. I said a close one. And that could mean that Pittsburgh is also capable. The Colts have.
01:25:37
Speaker 5: They've shown some decent road pedigree this year. I hate to rain on anyone's parade to the contrary, but, you know, played fairly well at times at Kansas City, did what they had to do to regroup and win the game in London. Obviously, the first game of the year was a travesty, and it took them to the very end to beat Houston at home on a late field goal. But the reality is they're 2-2 in a very, shall we say, suspect division when you look past Jacksonville. Again, would they rather be 3-1 or 4-0? Well, heck yeah. But after that Baltimore game, if I just said to you, hey, they're going to be 2-2 when they roll into Pittsburgh, you just said, I'll take it.
01:26:19
Speaker 1: Okay. We have a caller that has a question for you. Joe, you have a question for Danny. How are you?
01:26:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing fine. I've got a couple questions. First off, Danny, if you're the king of the hill, you won the NCAA football championship. a championship undefeated and they come out and you're not voted in as the top rated team in the preseason. And then they say, well, they almost lost the game to Northwestern and they drop us down a spot. What is how you have to do to gain their respect? Well, I think that's an interesting question.
01:27:02
Speaker 5: And here's why I talked to someone about that. this morning over to breakfast. I think two things. The transfer portal changes a lot. There are some new faces on the Indiana team at some key positions. There's also some talent at those respective positions. I do believe they're a well-coached group. I don't think it's the same unit as last year for the obvious reasons, the lack of, as I said, people transferring, people graduating, what have you. I don't think they lost a lot to transfer, though. They brought in more than they lost, that's for sure. I think they haven't played anybody, really, to be quite frank. I mean, Northwestern was their biggest opponent so far, and they won that ball game. You make a good point. They did win the game, and that's what's important. And Signetti had talked about, hey, Northwestern's a pretty decent football team leading up to that game. So I think with Nebraska this weekend, if they go in there– take care of business. I think the ratings thing might adjust a little bit. I think some of the teams that have been rated ahead of them have some marquee name value and have played maybe a couple games here and there as far as a better schedule. The reality is Indiana's... Sorry about that. The preseason conference or non-conference schedule for them... is that was pretty lame so i think that is and seconds sucking some voters mind but i think you could make a case i don't know that they're the best people in the country right now rated higher perhaps.
01:28:46
Speaker 1: Okay um so joe joe your your your point is or your belief is that Somebody's.
01:28:56
Speaker 3: Got some background.
01:28:57
Speaker 4: If you are the king of the hill and you want to be fanged, you're undefeated, I think you need to be the king of the hill until you get beat and knocked off of that hill.
01:29:09
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
01:29:09
Speaker 5: That's how the rating system works. That's how the rating system works. There is some merit to what you're saying. I would agree with that in theory, but I don't look at them as the king of the hill right now. I think they're a very good football team.
01:29:22
Speaker 1: But you know what, though? I see Joe. I kind of see Joe's point in that if this had been an Ohio State or a Michigan or an LSU, a big name, they would have been number one until somebody knocked them off. So maybe that's what he's saying, transfer portal or not. I mean, IU just, what he's talking about is the respectability. Because I have seen, and there have been questions, I think most recently Ohio State not this year, but maybe last year or some, anyway, coming off of a championship one year, they were number one and everybody was just flabbergasted because how can they be number one? And then the answer was, well, they're number one until somebody knocks them off. And so that is, I think is what Joe is saying. Does it have to do with just the fact that it's Indiana university and not Michigan or Ohio state or LSU or, Where's that one? Clemson or whoever. There have been a lot of college teams that have won the championship and come back at the top of the polls to start the season.
01:30:32
Speaker 5: It depends on your roster, and it depends on– and again, I go back to the transfer portal. I don't think any team is going to win two championships in a row with this current system of rules as far as the transfer portal, NIM, et cetera. I don't think that's going to happen. Now, that doesn't mean that Indiana can't play well. And, look, I'm concerned about they haven't played anybody in their non-conference schedule, but there's other teams that you can point at who had the same, shall we say, schedule, for lack of a better term. But I just don't think it's feasible to maintain a roster in this particular era year to year to year to year. I don't think they can win the championship this year with that group for that reason alone. But on the other hand, there's some other great football teams out there. I've watched a really good Georgia team three times now at length. I thought that Ohio State was gutty to schedule Texas.
01:31:36
Speaker 1: But again, I don't think he's talking that deep into the season. I think he's just talking about Rankings and rankings and rankings respect. I think that's what, is that what you're.
01:31:45
Speaker 4: Talking about, Joe?
01:31:46
Speaker 5: You don't play on this track.
01:31:47
Speaker 4: You got to play on personnel. I'm going to tell you this. You better go and get your popcorn ready because I think Indiana is going to fool a lot of people.
01:32:00
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:32:01
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:32:02
Speaker 1: I got some popcorn out.
01:32:03
Speaker 4: I appreciate you saying it. Thank you.
01:32:06
Speaker 3: All right.
01:32:07
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:32:08
Speaker 1: Okay. Danny, there you go.
01:32:10
Speaker 5: I couldn't hear half of what he was saying.
01:32:13
Speaker 1: He was saying, go get your popcorn.
01:32:15
Speaker 5: That part of it earlier.
01:32:17
Speaker 1: Whatever's going to happen without you this season is popcorn worthy. So don't be surprised, I think is what he was saying.
01:32:24
Speaker 5: Well, even prior to that, when the conversation, I missed so much because the reverberation on his phone, but that's not his fault.
01:32:31
Speaker 4: No.
01:32:33
Speaker 5: Here's how I look at the AP poll. how the coaches poll works, they look at rosters. And if teams have recruited through the portal, through the transfer or the traditional sense, you know, signing a kid to a scholarship out of, you know, high school, which is, you know, that still happens, believe it or not, then you tally that and take a look at it. Are they the best in the country the first day of the season? Probably not. Now, that doesn't mean they're not a good football team. And, you know, they have been in the top five most of the season. But the ratings are going to jump up and down. But right now, you don't worry too much about the ratings in October unless you've lost twice, which obviously you haven't.
01:33:18
Speaker 1: Okay. Sherry has another question for you. Go ahead, Sherry.
01:33:23
Speaker 15: No, I just wanted to chime in on what I want on that last caller. But, I mean... The analyst just said what I was about to say. To me, IU, they are undefeated still. However, they don't attract the number one high school recruits out of nationwide. And even though the people are in the portal, it's still, to me, it's still all about the high school talent that you are recruiting. And IU right now is not one of those top teams that that a lot of high school students are wanting to play for. It's still all about the SEC.
01:34:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:34:01
Speaker 4: Sorry.
01:34:02
Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.
01:34:02
Speaker 1: Okay. SEC for life, right? I guess. I've heard the saying, you're not playing football unless you're.
01:34:12
Speaker 5: In the SEC.
01:34:13
Speaker 15: Or Michigan or Ohio State.
01:34:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, or Michigan or Ohio State in the Big Ten. Yeah, that's true.
01:34:19
Speaker 4: All right.
01:34:20
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sherry. Appreciate it.
01:34:22
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I thought she had concluded. I apologize.
01:34:25
Speaker 1: I did not mean to speak over her.
01:34:27
Speaker 5: No, that's okay.
01:34:27
Speaker 11: Go ahead.
01:34:28
Speaker 5: And I appreciate her call. I do believe the Big Ten is on equal footing with the SEC. I mean, the last three years specifically would wear that out or bear that out, excuse me. But she talked about something very interesting about high school talent, and that, too, has been impacted by the portal. If I am a hotshot senior in high school, I'm the number one rated whatever position you want to talk about. I've got monetary value. I've got NIL value. And that indicates to me or dictates policy as far as who may be recruiting better than other schools. They got who's spending more and where do I want to go? Who can enhance my image? Who can make me more marketable for the next level? And I mean, this is a chess game. High school, college, professional.
01:35:22
Speaker 1: All of it is, yeah.
01:35:24
Speaker 5: And it's become a business. A long time ago, it became a business, but now it's become personal wealth management. It's become image management.
01:35:35
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, yes.
01:35:36
Speaker 5: And it's become the type of thing where you can spend a lot of money on a player and it go the wrong way, or you can spend a lot of money on a player and he delivers. There's probably not a whole lot of in-between. I guess there is a a situation where a guy does some things well, but not as much as you thought he might. But, yeah, it's a mess.
01:35:58
Speaker 1: Okay, another caller has a question for you. Brian, go ahead.
01:36:02
Speaker 2: How are you?
01:36:03
Speaker 11: Yes. Good afternoon, Rachel and buddy Dan.
01:36:09
Speaker 1: Still waiting on that tender.
01:36:10
Speaker 5: How you been?
01:36:11
Speaker 1: Tenderloin.
01:36:14
Speaker 11: I've been all right. Are you going out to the track this weekend?
01:36:20
Speaker 5: I am probably going to stick my head in and look around a little bit. That's a different type of racing. But I do enjoy endurance racing. But I'm not looking to spend a lot of time to track this weekend. I'm probably going to rest up a little bit and watch a little television. I'll watch it on YouTube probably.
01:36:38
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:36:39
Speaker 11: My next question, though, what do you think of the mess of the fever? Well, they have– I'm sorry.
01:36:47
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
01:36:48
Speaker 11: I was going to say, even though you say you casually watch, but I watch the WNBA only because they still play the game as it's supposed to be played.
01:37:02
Speaker 5: I have said this publicly and written this. I think the fever organization I'm talking about, front office, when I say organization, is arguably.
01:37:15
Speaker 5: A personal opinion, rather dysfunctional. Now, you say, well, how is that? How can it be? I'll simply say this. It's a lot more than constructing a roster. They do have some talent. They've been fortunate in the draft by virtue of their futility that put them in position to draft Miss Boston, to draft Miss Clark. They need a better bench, certainly, in my opinion, but year before last, they were on the doorstep of the WNBA finals without some other better players. I think it's a mixed bag, but I'm more concerned about who's running the organization and who's making those decisions than I am the actual quality of play. I will agree with you. It's a different game. It's fundamentally stronger. I've never seen the women not play hard. They play below the rim, but The bottom line is there's a couple of holes in their armor defensively and rebound-wise. So I think they're still an interesting team, and I think they could be better than they are.
01:38:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:38:25
Speaker 1: You know what, Danny? I couldn't agree with you more on the point of there being dysfunction at the top.
01:38:32
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:38:33
Speaker 1: Dysfunction at the top, because I think that a lot of what the fever are having to worry about that they shouldn't have to worry about comes from some of that top down dysfunctions. I just do. There's so many, many things that that organization could have handled a whole lot better so that they could focus on basketball. To me, they continue to fumble the ball.
01:39:00
Speaker 5: I think they've got to resign Kelsey Mitchell. There's a cap on how much someone can earn. It's a much bigger cap than it once was in the WNBA. One of the things that the fever can do is line her up with some local endorsements, line her up in a situation where she's getting additional money, she's getting additional exposure. There are ways to do that, and I'm just going to leave it at that. Read between the lines.
01:39:38
Speaker 1: As a fan, I don't think that the problem with Kelsey Mitchell is endorsements or even money. I think it's I think it's beyond that. And I think that until the fever organization learns to think forward and backward side, you know, learns to think and see things other than from their own perspective. I think that that dysfunction is going to continue.
01:40:01
Speaker 5: Well, I would say this in response to your comment about money and endorsements. that plays a huge role.
01:40:10
Speaker 1: Well, there's other teams out there that have that, that probably a whole lot more that they could throw. So, I mean, if that's– I'm just saying if that's all there was to the dysfunction or the problem that– Well, I'm not saying that they're dysfunctional.
01:40:23
Speaker 5: I don't think they're necessarily being dysfunctional on that. I think maybe they're just sitting on their hands a bit. But it will– they've got as much money as anybody in the league from a standpoint of their ownership group. So that being said, let's try to keep this young lady in the fold. She is the key cog, in my opinion.
01:40:45
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, Brian. I'm sorry.
01:40:47
Speaker 11: You're fine. This is your show.
01:40:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
01:40:51
Speaker 11: I wholeheartedly believe, more or less, only thing is that we.
01:40:58
Speaker 1: We got feedback there.
01:41:01
Speaker 11: The roster that they have, and I'll just, as they say, a spade a spade. You know, Hull and Cunningham are the same player. You don't have the luxury of having two of the same player. And they messed up. They should have kept Odyssey Sims and drafted a big athletic to help Boston. They would be on their way. But like I said, that's from the hierarchy of the organization and where their ineptitude is showing. And until they rectify that, they're not going anywhere.
01:41:39
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian.
01:41:39
Speaker 4: Thank you, Brian.
01:41:40
Speaker 11: Thanks.
01:41:41
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Sorry about the feedback, everybody.
01:41:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some technical issues. Also, I think on the stream, engineers have been working on that.
01:41:49
Speaker 1: It's... It's the Hurricane Isaias.
01:41:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
01:41:53
Speaker 2: The hurricane.
01:41:54
Speaker 1: Hurricane Isaias is marching our way.
01:41:57
Speaker 2: Did you hear about that, Danny? Isaias.
01:41:59
Speaker 1: Isaias coming straight up from the Gulf of Mexico, literally on a path straight up, you know.
01:42:05
Speaker 5: Well, but I think usually those things run out of steam a bit when they hit land, and let's hope that's the case.
01:42:12
Speaker 1: They do. And then sometimes they take a severe turn to the right or left, too, sometimes.
01:42:17
Speaker 2: That's true.
01:42:18
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have the projected path.
01:42:20
Speaker 5: We could use some rain. I don't want any tropical storm type activity, but we could definitely use some rain.
01:42:27
Speaker 2: It's on the way.
01:42:28
Speaker 7: We're going to get some on Saturday, it looks like.
01:42:31
Speaker 2: Saturday night.
01:42:32
Speaker 4: There we go.
01:42:33
Speaker 9: I'll take it.
01:42:34
Speaker 1: You had a point, Danny, that you were talking about that you felt like if Nebraska is Indiana University's toughest opponent, what were you saying?
01:42:47
Speaker 5: I believe that I mean, just the way the schedule has unfolded to this point in the year, this is probably the best team that they will have played. So if you go into their arena or their stadium, excuse me, it's not a basketball game. If you go into their stadium, you take care of business, you control the football, your defense enforces its will upon them, and you come out of there anywhere 14 to 21 points up when it's all said and done, it's a good plane ride home. And I do believe that will also help their ranking a little bit as well. Again, I don't put too much into the rankings in October. I mean, 12 teams are going to be in the playoff. You can't tell me they're not one of the best 12 teams in the country. So there's that, number one. Number two, it's October. Number three, it's October. I think people should probably take a deep breath about where teams should be rated in And there's no perfect system for that, but the perfect way to resolve.
01:43:50
Speaker 1: It is to win football games. Very quickly, you didn't think Northwestern was the toughest opponent to date?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they were to date, but I think Nebraska is a little bit better than they are.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 5: I don't think it's night and day, but if we're going to talk about Northwestern, we've got to talk about that Taj Mahal Stadium. Isn't that beautiful? I mean, are you kidding me? I did not realize their new stadium was that lavish. I knew they were building one. But, wow, what a tribute to technology and architecture, huh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:44:26
Speaker 10: Come on.
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Speaker 1: That school's got a lot of cash.
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Speaker 2: A whole lot of money.
01:44:30
Speaker 1: A whole lot of money at Northwestern.
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Speaker 5: Let me put it this way. If that thing had a retractable roof on it, you would see the Big Ten Championship moving that way.
01:44:40
Speaker 1: Moving to Chicago. We have one caller. Yeah, one caller real quick that commented. Go ahead, Sherry. Very quickly.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I just wanted to comment on the fever. And I wanted to ask, are there any good pieces that the person's job might be in jeopardy? I felt like the pound food... I felt like he was under the line in the playoffs. I felt like he was a huge enough. And then your additional number one draft pick from South Carolina, I don't think he had enough control in time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay. And to me, it.
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Speaker 15: Feels like that the coach definitely liked he was a lot of control in the last year.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 10: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So your overall question is, Danny, I don't know if you were able to hear that. Do you think that Coach Stephanie White's job is in jeopardy?
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Speaker 4: I don't think it should be.
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Speaker 5: I don't think it should be. That's the coach they wanted. They went out and got her. It's not an easy environment to coach in for two reasons, Caitlin Clark and Caitlin.
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Speaker 4: Clark, okay?
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of focus on how that resource is utilized, and that takes me back to the Kelsey Mitchell question. uh, aspect of it all. I believe she's the best player on that team. She being Kelsey Mitchell.
01:46:02
Speaker 1: No, no argument here.
01:46:04
Speaker 3: None.
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Speaker 5: I think that, I think the tandem together is very powerful. So that's another good reason they want to keep that young lady, uh, employed here. But to the caller's point, do I think she's done a, an adequate job? Do I think her job is in jeopardy? I think she's done enough for her job not to be even discussed, but I don't make those decisions. Uh, I'm not as smart as some of the people are that do make those kind of decisions in professional sports. Notice I said some. But, hey, I hear that music.
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Speaker 4: Recess is over.
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Speaker 1: Recess is over, I guess, yeah. Yeah, that's what he tells me. We want to remind everybody, early voting is underway now at the City-County Building for Indianapolis and Marion County. If you want to find out where it is where you live, if you live outside of Marion County, indianavoters.com. Danny, you're calling it a win for the Colts on Sunday?
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Speaker 8: Possibly.
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Speaker 5: In a close game, I'm going to take the Colts, and more importantly... This midterm election has huge ramifications. Everybody vote. Give your neighbor a ride to the polls. If you need a ride, call me. My number's always in everything I write. I'll personally pick you up and take you to the polls.
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Speaker 1: All righty. Tenderloin along the way, maybe. On a good day. On pay week. On pay week. How about that?
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Speaker 5: There we go.
01:47:24
Speaker 1: Thanks, Danny. We'll talk to you again soon. That's all the time we have for right now. William Moore Jr., he's up next.
Speaker 1: So you had a good time?
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Speaker 2: It was very nice.
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Speaker 3: I did.
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Speaker 4: I did.
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Speaker 1: It was really nice. They were they were just starting lunch and they were just starting lunch. My glasses are right here. And they had a very nice program. And it basically is just kind of a casual, you know, meet and greet. Tony Lamont is He's hosting. He's the MC.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 2: He's hosting.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Karen Vaughn, of course, our operations manager. And Andrea Carer, the station general manager.
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Speaker 2: General manager.
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Speaker 1: Was there. And Tony was very, very nice. I didn't think I would have to do anything, but I did have to stand up because I just was there to support. But it was really, really nice. And, you know, a great turnout. I mean, there was no parking.
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Speaker 2: No parking.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
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Speaker 7: And Tony, he's an exceptional MC.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he really is. He is so natural. He is. And just very good. So we had a very nice time. They're still there. The guest speaker was going to be the new pastor at St. John's, I do believe.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the new?
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 2: I think he's been on the show.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Reynolds.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's been on Reynolds.
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Speaker 1: Uh, Reagan, Rob Robinson, pastor Reagan. I, the Reagan part.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The Reagan part.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Uh, Reagan.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, um, forgive me because I'm, you know, several things, but I do know, uh, we talked and I said, you know, we met each other electronically. We met electronically. So, uh, it was good to see him. Very tall man. Very, very, uh, impressive. Um, But there were just so many people there, you know, and a nice community representation. Kendell Adams from IMPD was there.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Representative Cherish Pryor, Indiana State Representative. And she said, and I told her I would share this on the show, she asked that we make sure we hit question one on the ballot and explain as much as possible. She was going to send me some documents. In fact, she may have already sent it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, question one. Yeah, we've talked about it.
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Speaker 1: Question one, and she said it would be really, really bad news.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. If we don't... If it's a ballot question, here we go. And, you know, it is, what is this current law proposed change? You know, I'm going to see if Chase can put this on our website.
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Speaker 2: Oh, good idea.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, see if he can put it on our website, because it truly, truly does explain and breaks down those questions and the implications thereof.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: Current law proposed change. Yeah, the current law is only people charged with murder or treason can be denied bail or proof is either evident, you know, presumptive. So anyway, there's no bail for murder in the state of Indiana.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 1: The proposed change to that is that it would allow denial of bail for any offense. Oh, if the proof is evident or the presumption strong and the state provides by clear and convincing evidence. that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any person or the community. So that means if you held up, I don't know, a bank or, well, sometimes there's no bail for that. Let me think of something a little more pedestrian. But depending on how whoever arrests you and how they write it up, how that is put, you could be denied bail. And every offense in the state of Indiana, I think, is bailable with the exception of murder or treason, if I'm not mistaken. So, yeah, I'm going to send this to Chase. So if you guys want to find it, and she's going to come on and talk about it, but it's a mishmash of words. It's a word salad type of thing, and most people don't read through it. And to see, I.
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Speaker 2: Don't know.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You got to read through it to understand it, and then you got to go back, and then you got to go back. Because I read every line of questions. I read every one, and then I went back because I don't always understand when I first read things. And so I always double and triple check to make sure.
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Speaker 2: I do too.
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Speaker 7: I try to do the same. Do you feel like the word salad is intentional?
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Speaker 1: Of course.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: It couldn't be put this simply.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no. This is a one sheet put together by, I do believe, The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, of course, yeah. They put this one sheet together and it says, what is it? The current law, the proposed change, the potential community impact, and the key facts. So, yeah, let me tell her thank you because she did send that.
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Speaker 7: That's so good to know because, again, as we talked yesterday, so many people get to that part, certain things, and it's like, I don't know what that means. I don't understand that. It's so much to read. And maybe they're on a schedule, time restraints, and just can't read it all. It's like, well, I'm not going to do anything with that.
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Speaker 1: The thing of it is, let me put it right here. When you're voting, you know, there's nobody standing over you.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Some people should be.
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Speaker 2: To explain things.
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Speaker 1: Well, to tell you that, hey, hurry up and get out of there.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's true. You're right about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you vote, you have as much time as you need. There are no restrictions. There are no restrictions on that. area, you know, a desk or wherever, a computer, don't ever feel like you're rushed or anything.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no. I'm just saying if they are rushed based on their schedule.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And some folks just want to get out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 2: They want to get in, get out, and maybe something else is going on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, you should never feel rushed.
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Speaker 1: No, don't ever feel rushed. Valid question one explanation. Here we go. Explanation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those things are so important to know.
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Speaker 1: Please post this to all.
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Speaker 7: Such a good idea to have that information. We need to know things we need to know. Again, a lot of people won't have time or take the time to read some of that. And the word salad is created to make it what it is. In some cases, make it difficult.
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Speaker 2: Oh, don't bother reading that. It's too much to read.
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Speaker 1: I'll just say. Yeah, I'm asking if Chase can post it across all of our websites. Yeah, it's not going to hurt. No, not at all.
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Speaker 11: It's good to know.
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Speaker 1: Please, if at all possible, I'll say if at all possible. And let's see, did I copy you on that? I'll give it to you, too, so you can have it and you can print it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Okay, they're sent and done. So now, yes, nothing like a good old, and we want to thank all of our sponsors that made the luncheon possible, and especially Country Kitchen because they throw down.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Country Kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Country Kitchen was there, yes. And it was a feast, a soulful feast as a soul restaurant, soul food restaurant would prepare. I mean, you had, I didn't see everything, but I saw a lot of things on, folks plates. And of course there was the fried chicken, the cornbread, the greens. Uh, there was probably Mac and cheese. There, there's a whole bunch of stuff, a host of just a good old country kitchen, a good old country kitchen lunch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Country kitchen lunch. And so we thank, uh, miss Pat and everybody over there for what they were able to do. Uh, and I'm sure they're still feasting on some.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine.
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Speaker 7: So taking their time to enjoy and to, uh, Just relax and enjoy the moment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again, congratulations to Reverend Jim Payton. This was his idea several years ago. And he just thought of something really, really simple, and it has grown now to where it's huge. It really was. I'm like, whoa. And actually, even as I was leaving, there were still pastors coming in.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: That's very nice.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice. 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310 is the number to the show. And on our show today, our weekly sports segment with Danny Bridges. That's coming up in the second half. He's got a lot to talk about because the Pacers were in action last night for the first time in a long time. Their preseason game, which was in Ames, Iowa.
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Speaker 5: Ames.
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Speaker 2: They won that game, too.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 3: 123-112.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they did?
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Speaker 1: Okay. Did you watch?
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Speaker 2: I did not. But they beat the Timberwolves.
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Speaker 1: That would be nice.
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Speaker 2: So hopefully that'll.
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Speaker 1: Continue through the season. Yes, indeedy. So we're going to talk to Danny about that. I don't think he has a column this week.
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Speaker 8: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: He usually sends them to me in advance because I get his columns before I can get the paper. Although I guess I could get the paper early in the morning at a newsstand if I wanted to try to dig one up but it is have you ever tried to get a paper nowadays it's.
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Speaker 2: Hard to get a paper it is very hard it's not easy.
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Speaker 1: Either people buy them up real quickly or they just don't produce or as you know present as many as there there should be there.
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Speaker 7: So so many are online but of course in a lot of cases it's behind a paywall.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what kind of stops me i'm like no yeah i don't think i want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Why do they do that well i guess you used to have to pay for it when it was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to pay for it. So I guess they want you to pay for it then.
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Speaker 1: But it's so silly because if I get stopped by a paywall, I just go the back way, Google it, and.
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Speaker 8: It comes up.
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Speaker 7: I need to remember that going the back way.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it does. Just go back in there and try that.
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Speaker 1: And the whole article will come up.
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Speaker 5: It's like, well, what?
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Speaker 1: What's the point of a paper? I guess it's for those that really want to comply. I see folks coming back.
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Speaker 7: I used to subscribe to a paper locally. And when my subscription ended, I was going to renew. But the problem was I couldn't get anybody who could understand what I was saying or I couldn't understand them.
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Speaker 2: So I was suspicious. I thought, oh, you can do it online.
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Speaker 7: So I tried that and there was some issue. So let me call this number. And the person I got, I could hardly understand them. They go, what do you say, sir?
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Speaker 1: I said, okay, well.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's why. So I just said, never mind.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: I never renewed for that reason.
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Speaker 1: The offshore stuff is still going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much cheaper it could possibly be, but the frustration levels are off the chain.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, they are.
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Speaker 2: They really are. That's why I didn't renew. I don't have enough patience for this. And I'm a patient person, very patient.
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Speaker 1: And, you know, I had that happen one time. I'm very patient as well. I try to be. But I had that happen to me once with some kind of a service. I can't even remember what the issue was. But after we had finished, the company asked, what did I think? And I lit them up. It's like, how in the world do you expect me to get any kind of resolution to any kind of a problem when I can't even understand what your representative is saying. Nothing against your representative. Everybody needs a job.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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Speaker 1: But for goodness sake, can you get somebody that can speak the English language whose accent isn't so thick? But they weren't interested in that. And now you know what? Yeah, I don't think so. Because if you give a wide open one, okay, fine. But have you noticed that very few.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, afterthought, very few surveys are open. Most of them are pre-populated because this is what they want to know about. They don't care if there was an issue that didn't even come up, that didn't even come up in this list that you have.
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Speaker 11: True.
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Speaker 2: That's true.
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Speaker 1: There's nowhere to put that in the evaluation.
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Speaker 2: You're right.
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Speaker 11: You're right.
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Speaker 1: So these pre-populated evaluations are just basically... To me, they're canceling the noise in terms of what you really want to talk about or really want to explain. And sometimes I want to tell them so badly that the list, the drop-down menu, here, okay, you have a problem with your having technical issues.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Is it one of these? You know, and no.
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Speaker 2: It's not one of those.
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Speaker 1: And is it one of these?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then they send you all the way back to the beginning. Tell us what your problem is.
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Speaker 2: And you tell them, but it's not what the problem is. You can't really express what it is.
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Speaker 7: It's like Sunday after church, my wife stopped by an alteration place to make sure that everything, there was a language barrier. It took 15 minutes to get an issue that should have taken a minute solved. And they had to call this person, call that person, call this person. And there was a partial payment that she had already made, and she just wanted to make sure she got the receipt for it. And they didn't give her a receipt. So she just came back to go, well, you want to cancel?
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Speaker 9: No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: So it took maybe 20 minutes, Tina, to be honest. It took maybe 20 minutes to get that straight.
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Speaker 1: Was that a chain or was that an independent?
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Speaker 2: Independent. Okay.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I can almost see that because it's independent, you know?
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Speaker 2: But it's never happened before in all the years she's gone there.
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Speaker 1: Well, that makes sense, too. Well, yeah, that makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 2: That was very odd.
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Speaker 1: So the owner of that independent outlet needs to know about that. I'm talking about these multi-billion dollar corporations that hire these people for $ 2 an hour offshore to do, you know, just if you want to talk to a live human. And I always say I want to talk to a human who speaks English.
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Speaker 2: Yes, me too. I don't want to go through that whole thing. What? You're trying to listen. You're trying to press the phone to your ear.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Say that again. It gets annoying.
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Speaker 1: And they do try their hardest.
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Speaker 4: They do.
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Speaker 2: They do.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps they shouldn't be in customer service, maybe somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: In another area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if their language and accent is such to the point where it's counterproductive, then what are you doing?
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? So anyway. The weather. The weather, Eric.
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Speaker 2: The weather. I can tell you. I can tell you. In a word, sunny right now and pretty nice out.
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Speaker 7: Short to leave weather. 76 downtown right now. A few clouds here and there. The rest of the day should be sunny and a mixture of clouds from time to time. About 79 before sunset tonight and tomorrow 83. Then on Saturday, partly sunny 81. We'll get some rain on Saturday night and into Sunday. It looks like showers and Sunday night as well. But it'll be nice all the way up until Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 1: So Sunday, I heard one of the meteorologists this morning, early, early this morning, like about five, giving a report. And I can't remember if it was national or local, but anyway. They were saying that for Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday is going to be a good day to stay inside and watch the Colts or whoever, or, you know, Home Shopping Network, whatever you do on a rainy Sunday afternoon, because it's going to be dreary cool and wet as a direct result of what's coming offshore, you know, from, yeah, coming from the Atlantic to the eastern seaboard all the way over to, I don't know what the name of the storm is.
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Speaker 2: I don't know the name. I can look it up for you.
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Speaker 1: I can look it up, too.
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Speaker 2: For Sunday, yeah, it's about 71 a chance of showers. It's going to be cooler.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: But it looks like- Windy.
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Speaker 1: They say the wind's going to start picking up.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the winds will be out of the east about 11 miles per hour, gusting to 20 miles per hour on Saturday night. Then on Sunday, under 71, gust as high as 18 on Sunday, with, of course, rain, showers, mainly before 2, it looks like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, rainy and wet.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm, rainy and wet.
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Speaker 1: Rainy and very, very.
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Speaker 2: So Saturday night it'll kick in.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Cooling off a bit.
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Speaker 1: Cooling off. But they say the winds should start picking up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Thursday or, well, today is Thursday. Friday. What day? Are we on Thursday?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: So here we go. Yeah. Tomorrow.
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Speaker 11: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Late tonight and tomorrow we'll start to see a little bit of increase in winds and that'll be increasing each day.
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Speaker 2: Some call it AKA baby Friday. This being Thursday. I've heard that.
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Speaker 1: Also known as?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday. Okay. Baby Friday.
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Speaker 1: Baby Friday.
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Speaker 2: Almost Friday.
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Speaker 1: Friday Eve.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Friday Eve. There you go. That's it.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to grab a call.
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Speaker 1: Okay. We'll go ahead and grab that. And while we are talking, this is the talk of a lot of folks across the country right now. Did you receive, either in the mail or in your account via direct deposit, a $ 90 check today from the Social Security Administration? If you did, it's not a joke. It's real. Millions of seniors are receiving $ 90 deposits. If you're a senior citizen, I should say, I should preface that. If you are a senior citizen, you're receiving and you signed up for Medicare. If you're a senior citizen, who is enrolled in Medicare, senior citizen enrolled in Medicare, you are getting $ 90 today. Most of you are getting it. It may come in a check tomorrow or whatever. The payments are tied to the Trump administration's announcement last Friday that it would send checks to about 20 million Americans, 20 million Medicare enrollees to help lower, get this, lower health care costs. A $ 90 check is going to be sent to about 20 million, if not already, if you haven't gotten it already. $ 90. Okay? In people's accounts right now, today, 20 million people who are signed up for Medicare are getting checks today, $ 90. Trump said last Friday that his administration would send the money to some Medicare participants In the health care plans Part B, Medicare Part B, which pays for doctor visits, outpatient care, and preventive screenings. About one-third of Medicare's Part B, 62.9 million enrollees are eligible. However, roughly 40 million people do not qualify for the payments. Seniors who are enrolled in Part B under traditional Medicare and who don't pay Income-related premiums or receive premium assistance from Medicaid are eligible for the one-time payment. Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage, however, are ineligible. So if you're in Medicare Advantage, you're not getting this. That leaves, again, more than 20 million Part B enrollees who are eligible. according to the fact sheet. Now, here's the quote. People who are paying the income-related premium have higher incomes to begin with, so the thinking is that they may be better able to absorb higher costs and wouldn't benefit much from the $ 90 payment as people with lower incomes. This is from Juliet Kubansky. vice president and director of program on Medicare policy at KFF, and this is what she told CBS News. That logic doesn't make sense to me because I think what happens is people who don't have the money to buy the higher packages as a whole tend to roll the dice, right? And maybe I'm misunderstanding it. Anyway, it's lopsided. It's still lopsided thinking because she said people enrolled, you know, people, let's see, people who are paying income-related premiums have higher incomes to begin with. So income-related premiums have higher premiums to begin with.
00:20:59
Speaker 4: Okay.
00:21:00
Speaker 1: Anyway, long story short, I'll noodle on that one a little bit.
00:21:04
Speaker 2: I'm doing that right now as you're talking about it.
00:21:08
Speaker 1: It does say, though, I mean, Medicare Advantage is out of the whole thing. Medicare Advantage isn't the same as traditional Medicare, which is likely why those enrollees don't qualify for the payments. So that is fair to say. I can't really count other people's money and say why they choose this and why they choose that.
00:21:25
Speaker 5: But.
00:21:27
Speaker 1: The agency says the initiative improves Medicare and makes coverage more affordable by putting health care dollars back where they belong in the hands of our Medicare beneficiaries. Now, the payments are reportedly funded by the Medicare improvement funds established by Congress to help support the original Medicare fee-for-service program. I'm not familiar with that, so don't ask. Experts say the $ 90 million, while helpful, will not fully offset higher costs facing Medicare recipients. Here's another thing experts are saying. Maybe they're asking the question, is this a political stunt to try to gain favor rolling into the midterms by the Trump administration? Because I'm going to tell you, if it were, I mean, come on, if I give you $ 90 right now and say this is to help offset your health care costs, What's that $ 90 going to do while you're paying health care for the remainder of the year and then all into next year?
00:22:31
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:22:31
Speaker 1: Unless it's consistent or sustained, it doesn't do a thing.
00:22:35
Speaker 10: Right.
00:22:36
Speaker 2: Consistent.
00:22:36
Speaker 1: Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure everybody, all these folks out there are probably really appreciating that they got 90 extra dollars in their pocket. in their accounts today. But for what?
00:22:47
Speaker 2: That's one time, isn't it?
00:22:48
Speaker 9: Yes.
00:22:49
Speaker 2: It's not a monthly thing.
00:22:50
Speaker 10: No.
00:22:51
Speaker 4: Okay.
00:22:52
Speaker 1: So how is this supposed to cut health care costs and put money back in the pockets of Americans and help them pay their premiums?
00:22:59
Speaker 12: Hmm.
00:23:00
Speaker 2: Good question.
00:23:01
Speaker 1: It's gas money. It's not even gas money.
00:23:03
Speaker 7: I was just going to say that's not quite gas, or it could be depending on what you drive.
00:23:06
Speaker 1: $ 90 nowadays won't pay a utility bill. It won't pay for a tank full of gas. If it does, it'll take most of it up.
00:23:14
Speaker 2: It'll take most of it.
00:23:15
Speaker 1: And when you've got premiums, like my daughter, when she was, well, my son too, when they were enrolling annually for work, their healthcare premiums per check, per pay, We're between $ 250 and $ 300. Uh-huh. And that's not with the top tier. That's with the mid-range PPO.
00:23:34
Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
00:23:35
Speaker 1: And both of them. So that's $ 400 a month at minimum.
00:23:39
Speaker 2: At minimum.
00:23:40
Speaker 9: At minimum.
00:23:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
00:23:41
Speaker 1: $ 500 a month is coming out of your hard-earned pay.
00:23:43
Speaker 8: Right.
00:23:44
Speaker 1: And you're going to tell me that a one-time payment of $ 90 is going to help you offset those health care costs?
00:23:49
Speaker 11: Uh-uh.
00:23:50
Speaker 4: No.
00:23:50
Speaker 2: One time.
00:23:51
Speaker 1: If you're smart enough not to be fooled by it, go ahead. Go ahead and, I mean, let me put it this way. If you're smart enough not to be fooled by it, good for you. If you think that that is going to buy your vote, then you don't have, you're cheap, I guess. I don't know. You're easy. You're an easy person to persuade. I don't know how $ 90, but I will say this. Seniors who are in Medicare, enrolled in Medicare, They've been to the rodeo a time or two. They know budgets. They know, they can smell a rat when they, you know, a skunk, I'm sorry, they can smell a skunk when there's one in the room.
00:24:37
Speaker 2: A skunk.
00:24:38
Speaker 1: So $ 90, and then, you know, all of this money that the Trump administration is throwing out there trying to get people to like them, trying to get people to vote for them. There's another $ 500 rebate or something he's talking, I don't even know what it is, and then the $ 5, 000 one if, Republicans stay. But this $ 90 rebate for, and it's not even for everybody.
00:25:02
Speaker 2: That's true.
00:25:03
Speaker 1: It's not even for everybody.
00:25:04
Speaker 2: That's true. And it's a one-time. And a one-time thing. One-time thing.
00:25:09
Speaker 1: So is that all it takes to get your vote?
00:25:14
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
00:25:16
Speaker 11: No.
00:25:16
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering. But anyway, to those who got the money today, good for you. Enjoy it. And let's see how far it goes after today.
00:25:26
Speaker 2: Get some gas.
00:25:28
Speaker 1: Are you really, really, really going to put that $ 90 toward your health care premium? I don't know how stupid they think Americans are. And especially if you've enrolled in Medicare, like I said, you've been around the block a time or two. That's true. You've been to this rodeo. You know what's up. You're not going to be fooled. Now, with the promises of the $ 5, 000 check, I think that'll fool a lot of folks.
00:25:52
Speaker 2: That'll fool a lot.
00:25:52
Speaker 1: You know, dangling that out there like a carrot.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: $ 5, 000.
00:25:56
Speaker 1: But, you know, putting $ 90 in your account for one time.
00:26:02
Speaker 5: Once.
00:26:02
Speaker 1: Effort once to pay off. Yeah, they're saying it's not going to do anything to lower health care.
00:26:08
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
00:26:10
Speaker 1: So whether it's a bona fide genuine political stunt or just out of the goodness of his heart, he just wanted to give folks a little extra something for the month of October.
00:26:23
Speaker 2: Goodness of his heart.
00:26:24
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
00:26:25
Speaker 1: Happens to be the month of October, which is right, you know, we're less than a month away from the election. So these funds have hit less than a month from the election.
00:26:34
Speaker 2: Maybe it's from the goodness of his heart.
00:26:36
Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
00:26:37
Speaker 4: Maybe.
00:26:37
Speaker 2: Could be.
00:26:38
Speaker 1: Could be. Anyway, speaking of which, the lines are open, 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. We'll get to your phone calls. Let's squeeze in a quick break right here. And when we come back, we'll go to phone lines.
00:26:59
Speaker 13: Let's get back to the conversation. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby from the Praise Indie Indigo Studios on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:27:11
Speaker 1: And we're back with Community Connection 317-480-1310. 317-480-1310. If you got a check today, good for you, but please don't be fooled. Don't be fooled. Look at the timing. Look and see if you get another one. This is a one-time deal.
00:27:28
Speaker 5: And....
00:27:30
Speaker 1: You know, to me, I think.
00:27:32
Speaker 4: It, I.
00:27:34
Speaker 9: Don't know.
00:27:35
Speaker 1: The intelligence of seniors is not being appreciated, put it that way. 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310. We'll go to the phone lines. Terry, go ahead. How are you?
00:27:49
Speaker 3: Hi.
00:27:49
Speaker 9: I was wondering, am I the only one that pays cash for their utility bill at Kroger's or Family Dollar? And I'm consistent doing that. That's what's best for me. 20 here, 50 there, case care of the bill. I get in the mail from AES, the $ 10 billion company, a plastic little key fob that says, you can pay your AES account, blah, blah, blah, blah, with your cash at your favorite participating retailer. And it's a little key fob. I see there's an extension of different places in which you can pay it. Did two days of going to two different locations, Kroger on Allisonville, no, because it's not working. Not Allisonville, I'm sorry, on Keystone, they informed me that I am the fourth person to come in to use this key file to pay in cash. And again, it's not working. Go to Endora. They say it's not working. They're not using it because it's not working with their system. Okay. I've got another day before it's due. I go to Family Dollar. It's on there. Is it Family Dollar? Yes. Dollar General. Go to locations. They too are saying it's not working. And I'm like, I'm frustrated. So I look at my key fob. The number on here is not my account number. So had I, if it did work, I'd be paying someone else's bill. Am I the only one that got this in the mail?
00:29:29
Speaker 1: This is the first I've heard about the key fobs. I don't know, but, you know, we can certainly look it up. That is frustrating as all get out. I can't imagine that. It sounds like they don't. want you to pay cash. They want you to load the fob. Is that correct?
00:29:44
Speaker 9: The key fob.
00:29:45
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:29:45
Speaker 9: That's what I got over and over again.
00:29:48
Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
00:29:48
Speaker 1: That's the first I've heard of that. I mean, that's interesting.
00:29:51
Speaker 9: It came in the mail with my name on it, all correct and everything. So I'm trying to figure out. How is it that you can get the address and name correct and you got the account number wrong? And if you're a $ 10 billion business, how do.
00:30:08
Speaker 5: You do that?
00:30:10
Speaker 4: I don't know.
00:30:10
Speaker 1: Have you tried to reach them?
00:30:14
Speaker 9: No, because I'm concerned about paying on time. I'm like, okay, you want me to comply? I will comply. You want me?
00:30:22
Speaker 3: I will comply.
00:30:23
Speaker 14: I will just comply.
00:30:25
Speaker 9: Because I want to pay my bill on time and go on with my business.
00:30:28
Speaker 1: So how do you end up paying your bill?
00:30:31
Speaker 15: I use my card.
00:30:33
Speaker 1: Okay. So is the FOB, have they presented it as the FOB is the only way you can pay your bill now?
00:30:40
Speaker 12: By cash.
00:30:43
Speaker 9: If you are generally paid by cash and you go to Kroger or these other nine locations, they're have sent you a key fob and a letter that says, if you're going to be consistently paying my cash, we want you to pay this way and go to these locations.
00:31:01
Speaker 1: Well, then they need to be alerted to the fact that they have your account number wrong.
00:31:07
Speaker 9: Yes, but my thing is, after two days of trying, I feel like it's on purpose for you to comply to not pay cash. Cash means I have to hire someone the $ 10 billion company. I have to hire someone to pay to count the cash. This is why they're like, if I could just gaslight you for, I don't know, a couple of million dollars to use a California place and also an Anchorage, Kentucky place to have the cash from Indiana, it goes to these two places. That's what's on the information just for you to pay cash.
00:31:50
Speaker 6: This is gaslighting.
00:31:52
Speaker 9: You don't want to do cash anymore because with all the degrees and all the money, you should have made this kind of mistake. You'd rather roll your dice, in my opinion, to see who I can get to conform, to comply, and not pay cash anymore because I don't really want to employ anyone. I just want to use AI, automation, whatever.
00:32:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds like.
00:32:18
Speaker 9: You know?
00:32:19
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:32:19
Speaker 9: So I'm like, but at the same time, if that's what you're going to do, and other companies copy this, you need to say to your customers, I will protect your information, your checking account, your card, however you pay, like it's a bank. Because over and over again, we keep seeing where companies are being hacked, and we're left to scramble. Oh, wait a minute.
00:32:48
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
00:32:49
Speaker 5: You know, yeah.
00:32:50
Speaker 9: And people cannot afford it. This is how do I know that they're paying? They're putting pieces $ 20 here, $ 50 there to pay cash for a utility bill.
00:33:01
Speaker 1: Yeah. And thank you. Thank you for that. And I am so sorry for your frustration, because believe you me, I know exactly. I had a similar situation that happened. Thank you. I appreciate it. I had a similar situation. That happened over the weekend, and I was about ready to just scream. I mean, it is frustrating as all get out. But I want to look into that a little more. I certainly understand her frustration. I have not heard of these key fobs. And if they have the wrong account number, then she's right. What's the point? They should be made to correct that right away. But in terms of trying to force people into using a currency that they want you to use, I too would resist.
00:33:46
Speaker 4: Oh, I would too.
00:33:46
Speaker 1: That's not what I want to do.
00:33:47
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that.
00:33:48
Speaker 1: I keep seeing, you know, like when I pay my bills, I go in and I physically pay them online, but they always have go paperless or use auto pay.
00:34:00
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:34:00
Speaker 1: I will never.
00:34:01
Speaker 2: No, auto pay.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: No.
00:34:04
Speaker 2: I don't like that at all.
00:34:05
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
00:34:06
Speaker 1: And they're trying to force you into it and they put it up there on the screen every time that's on the land. Would you like to switch?
00:34:12
Speaker 9: No.
00:34:12
Speaker 7: And some will give you, In certain situations, oh, we'll give you a discount on this if you go auto pay.
00:34:18
Speaker 2: I don't want to go auto pay.
00:34:19
Speaker 1: Yeah. If you go paperless, there's one that I, now there is one that I like that I use because they do a good job with reminding me online. I don't get it. I think it's my cell phone bill. I don't get a paper bill, but that's okay. Yeah, mine is. It's paperless. I get a discount on my phone bill.
00:34:40
Speaker 2: I do, too.
00:34:41
Speaker 1: But those that want you to just do it for their convenience or to make it cheaper on them, no.
00:34:44
Speaker 8: No, no.
00:34:45
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that.
00:34:46
Speaker 1: My thing is, what are you going to give me?
00:34:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do I get for it?
00:34:48
Speaker 1: What do I get?
00:34:49
Speaker 10: Nothing.
00:34:49
Speaker 2: Oh, nothing. Nothing. Just do it our way. That's all.
00:34:52
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. Again, I want to look into that key fob thing. I've never heard that. But then again, I don't pay cash.
00:35:00
Speaker 2: But if you want to, you should have the option.
00:35:01
Speaker 1: You should have the option still. There's no reason whatsoever.
00:35:05
Speaker 4: Not at all.
00:35:05
Speaker 10: None.
00:35:06
Speaker 1: So I get it. I really do get it. 317-480-1310. Laura, go ahead.
00:35:10
Speaker 4: How are you?
00:35:12
Speaker 8: I'm good.
00:35:13
Speaker 6: Well, I call for one thing, which you were talking about in the beginning, but this lady made me think about my AS bill. But first of all, I was saying that it was ironic that you all were talking about getting different people or getting those machines on the phone when you call in. My grandson sent me a reel last night and it had a man on there. He says, so they tell you to push one for English and then you end up with somebody in some foreign country.
00:35:41
Speaker 1: I love it. That is so true. Well, what kind of English are you talking about? You know, near English? I love that.
00:35:50
Speaker 6: Press one for English.
00:35:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, at your own risk.
00:35:54
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
00:35:55
Speaker 6: But this lady with the AES reminded me of mine last week. I have never been so frustrated in my entire life. I receive a disconnect notice from AES, and I'm like, what? And so I have two different houses. And I said, how is this? So I call them. because see, every time I go, I go online to pay my bill, pay both of my bills. But for the past month or so, I've not been able to get online because their system is down and they've turned it in, turned it in as far as my account goes. And so I would, they would send me to that thing, you know, where you could pay that. I don't know what they call it, but their system that you can pay, they'll connect you to it. So I did that. And then I get a disconnect notice for my other house.
00:36:48
Speaker 9: And I'm like, what the heck?
00:36:49
Speaker 6: So I call them. And so they were they were applying all my money to one house.
00:36:56
Speaker 9: Oh, I see.
00:36:56
Speaker 6: And I said, why would you do that when it's two different account numbers?
00:37:00
Speaker 1: Two different addresses and account numbers.
00:37:01
Speaker 13: Right.
00:37:02
Speaker 6: And I said, that's why I like to do it online because I get to choose my account number. I don't like working with you all because you jack it up.
00:37:09
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:37:09
Speaker 6: And so then they were going to straighten it out. This house was up for disconnect because all my money had gone to that. Well, we got to figure out how to put the money over there. I said, yeah, you do need to figure out how to split that because I don't have money to pay. That again, the other house is total electric. And I can't tell you how much my bills are over there. It's outrageous. It's not even a huge house at all. It's one story and it's total electric and it's running me eight and nine hundred dollars a month. And here's before last, I would get a refund because I was on the budget and I would get a refund up to seven hundred dollars for overpayment. Now, how did it triple like that?
00:37:48
Speaker 3: But.
00:37:49
Speaker 6: That's another story. But anyway, so it took me, I can't tell you how many people it took me to talk to, to get this.
00:37:55
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker 6: And so then she says, well, we have this thing called warm heart, warm home, something like that, that we can help you out. And since it's up for disconnect, so you don't have to pay that deposit. Cause I've never paid deposit on it cause I've had it for this long. And I said, okay. So all that was supposed to be taken care of. And so they had to put me back through that machine thing to pay this money. So they gave me a confirmation number. So then I hung up. And for some reason or another, the next morning it said, double check and make sure everything's okay. And so I did. But now the confirmation number that this thing gave me was different than the confirmation number it gave me yesterday. I know we've got a problem here. So I called back, and the lady says, well, I don't see your payment. And it usually goes automatically. I said, what do you mean you don't see the payment? I did this with you all yesterday. She says, well, it's not showing up, and it's usually right there. I said, well, I have two different confirmation numbers, but that's not my problem. You figure it out, because I'm not giving you any more money on this. This is ridiculous that you guys can't. I know I'm not the only person that has two houses in your escrow here. I know I'm not. And so... It took me forever to get them to figure that out and figure out where they put my money and why I have two confirmation numbers. I said, it's just ridiculous. I don't understand it. So now when you call, you don't even get a person. You get a machine now that you talk to first.
00:39:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:39:34
Speaker 1: It takes an actor. And thank you, Laura. I appreciate it. And thank you for sharing that frustration. It takes an act of Congress.
00:39:40
Speaker 4: It does.
00:39:41
Speaker 1: It does. To get a human.
00:39:43
Speaker 8: It really does.
00:39:43
Speaker 1: Because they want their bot to take care of your issues so that you don't have to bother A human. Now, a human might be six or seven different stages down the road.
00:39:53
Speaker 2: That's true.
00:39:54
Speaker 1: In your call. But and then they want you to ask for a call back.
00:40:00
Speaker 2: And here are six or seven stages of frustration.
00:40:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker 2: Tina, I got to tell you about a story.
00:40:05
Speaker 7: Someone that I know, they got a text from Citizens Gas to call them because they think that their meter might be broken. So they're saying to them and they need to schedule for, you know, repair replacements. Well, they called and let them know, yeah, we're not showing any gas usage since April in your house. So we figured the meter must be bad. Well, he explained that, no, all we have is a fireplace, a fire pit, and a furnace. Three gas things. So we haven't used any gas since April. But they insisted, oh, your meter must be broken. We got to replace it. Something's wrong with it.
00:40:41
Speaker 2: Said, no, no, no, no.
00:40:42
Speaker 7: We don't have anything gas that we're using now. But they wanted that money.
00:40:48
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
00:40:48
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
00:40:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when you when you call and then they say you're the problem.
00:40:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're the problem.
00:40:54
Speaker 7: And he pointed out, no, we don't have we're using we got a fire pit fireplace and a furnace.
00:40:58
Speaker 2: We haven't used any since April.
00:41:00
Speaker 1: Something's got to change. And all these data centers going up, which probably are going to exacerbate the problem because more and more.
00:41:06
Speaker 2: I think so, too. I think so.
00:41:08
Speaker 10: Joe.
00:41:09
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's go to Joe.
00:41:11
Speaker 15: Joe.
00:41:11
Speaker 1: Joe, Joe, how are you?
00:41:14
Speaker 4: Hey, Tina, I'm going to throw you a curveball and change the subject.
00:41:17
Speaker 1: That's okay.
00:41:19
Speaker 4: I can hit a curve. This morning I got up. It was so beautiful outside. I grabbed my fishing poles and headed for Cicero.
00:41:28
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
00:41:31
Speaker 4: The fish aren't biting, but probably two shades darker.
00:41:35
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:41:37
Speaker 4: I was talking to a friend that gave me a call while I was out there fishing, and he said, hey, Joe. Did you get your $ 90? It's in my bank account. I said, $ 90 from who? It said from Donald J. Trump. What? Yeah. I got $ 90. I got an email from him saying it was from him. I said, no, I didn't get $ 90. And I don't expect to get $ 90. And this is where the Democrats need to get up off of their butts and get out in front of this stuff. so that we can see them. Jeffries, the rest of you, get up and get out there and start talking.
00:42:21
Speaker 1: They really do.
00:42:22
Speaker 3: It's so interesting for.
00:42:23
Speaker 4: You to talk about. And it's ridiculous that they haven't said anything.
00:42:28
Speaker 1: They haven't said a word that I know of. I was at the luncheon most of the morning, so I haven't seen anything or push alerts. I haven't seen any outrage. I haven't seen or heard. You make a really, really, really good point. Where are the Democrats on this? Because this is nothing to me, and maybe I'm overstepping my bet, to me it's nothing more than a political stunt.
00:42:50
Speaker 4: That's all it is.
00:42:51
Speaker 1: To try to garner favor heading into the midterms.
00:42:55
Speaker 4: To make people think that the $ 5, 000 is on its way.
00:42:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, to make you think, yeah.
00:42:59
Speaker 4: All you got to do is vote for a Republican, get us in office, and I'll give you $ 5, 000. There you go.
00:43:05
Speaker 15: I'm not going to.
00:43:06
Speaker 4: Give it to everybody. And oh, by the way, I didn't say bomb... San Diego and Los Angeles. What I said, you go in there and try doing that and you will go catch hell, Iran.
00:43:19
Speaker 3: What?
00:43:20
Speaker 4: That's not what you said, Donald.
00:43:22
Speaker 1: No, it's not. That's not what you said. You said something pretty important because there were some exclusions to this $ 90 payment. Not all Americans on Medicare are going to get this payment because they've divided it up into certain plans if you're on Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Just like I, you know, he says all Americans will get $ 5, 000.
00:43:44
Speaker 10: All.
00:43:44
Speaker 1: That's what he says. But I just wonder if he might not have that parsed out to blue states. I mean, look at these states that were in dire need of money that were hit hard, like California, by disaster. And he was holding up FEMA funds because California didn't vote for him. It was a blue state.
00:44:02
Speaker 9: Yeah.
00:44:03
Speaker 1: So you never know how he's going to categorize what he does and this, or if he's even going to make good on the promise. I don't believe that at all.
00:44:13
Speaker 4: I don't believe it. And you've got a hurricane on the way, Donald.
00:44:18
Speaker 1: Is that the hurricane? What's the storm's name? I think it starts with an I. Starts with an I.
00:44:26
Speaker 4: Something, something, something.
00:44:28
Speaker 10: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:44:30
Speaker 4: That's funny, too. Yeah. Something like that.
00:44:39
Speaker 1: I-S-A-I-A-S. I-S-A-I-A-S. I-S-A-I-A-S. Forgive me, because I need to know what that is. But anyway, Hurricane... The path.
00:44:51
Speaker 4: You being a news person, you ought to be able to pronounce that.
00:44:54
Speaker 1: You know what? I'm going to go to the pronouncer and ask. Thank you very much. Uh... Let me see here. I'm going to find out right now. Why do they make these hard names anyway? Whatever happened to Beulah and Bertha?
00:45:12
Speaker 4: They don't use those type words anymore. Hurricane Tina, Hurricane James, Hurricane Joe, all of those hurricanes are already gone. Hmm. But he's got a hurricane on the way.
00:45:30
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:32
Speaker 4: And those people are going to need help. Mm-hmm.
00:45:35
Speaker 1: He say yes?
00:45:36
Speaker 2: Is it yes?
00:45:38
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:39
Speaker 2: He say yes? Okay, he say yes.
00:45:41
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:43
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a new one.
00:45:44
Speaker 4: He say yes.
00:45:45
Speaker 2: He say yes.
00:45:46
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:47
Speaker 4: That's what I heard her say, yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:45:51
Speaker 1: He say yes.
00:45:53
Speaker 4: It's a hard word, a hard tornado to say.
00:45:56
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
00:45:58
Speaker 1: I hope it's not going to, yeah, Isaias.
00:46:00
Speaker 2: Isaias. Is that the first one of the season, I think?
00:46:03
Speaker 1: No, they usually go, a lot of them just die out there in the Atlantic.
00:46:07
Speaker 2: Right, but as far as coming.
00:46:09
Speaker 1: Towards the land. Well, they're already down to the eyes, though, so it can't be the first. Don't they go alphabetically?
00:46:16
Speaker 2: They do, but maybe they haven't reached the states.
00:46:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's probably.
00:46:20
Speaker 2: They've been out to sea.
00:46:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, most of them die out.
00:46:23
Speaker 7: Because I think I heard that our season was kind of sparse with hurricanes.
00:46:27
Speaker 2: Not that I'm complaining.
00:46:28
Speaker 4: And they're expecting for that to hit Alabama down at Orange, was it Orange Beach or whatever down in Alabama?
00:46:36
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
00:46:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. So anyway, the fact is, Tina, go ahead and do your one o'clock thing and get out and go fire that grill up and cook some food.
00:46:51
Speaker 1: I think I will. I think I will. I think I'm most certain.
00:46:54
Speaker 12: Thank you, Joe.
00:46:55
Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. Thank you.
00:46:56
Speaker 4: Thank you.
00:46:58
Speaker 1: You too.
00:46:58
Speaker 2: 3 1 7 4 8.
00:46:59
Speaker 1: 0 13 10 3 1 7 4 8 0 13 10. Is this Genevieve? Genevieve. Genevieve, you there? This is Josephine.
00:47:04
Speaker 2: Oh, Josephine.
00:47:05
Speaker 8: Okay.
00:47:05
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
00:47:09
Speaker 12: I'm thinking about my mother's name. Anyway, um, Yeah, I want to talk about a spiritual battle going on instead of... I know everything on the outward appearance seems, you know, but.
00:47:34
Speaker 12: I know you know the story of Jesus going out into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, right?
00:47:41
Speaker 4: Okay. Okay, so the devil has the nerve to say if.
00:47:47
Speaker 12: If thou be the son of God, command these stones that they be made.
00:47:52
Speaker 10: Bread, right?
00:47:52
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
00:47:54
Speaker 12: Now, you know, God is not stupid. He knows who he is. So he said, get behind me. Okay, so the same thing with Trump. He is taking something that's scriptural. Like, I think somebody said he's the chosen one, or somebody said taking something that's scriptural But using it to his advantage, justifying hate, and using scripture to try to back it up, if that makes any sense. Oh, yeah. So that's what's going on now. A lot of people, and I don't want to judge, but a lot of people are using that same tactic with him, saying, well, we already been, abortion is wrong.
00:48:41
Speaker 10: And homosexuality is wrong.
00:48:43
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not going to argue whether it's wrong or right. That's my personal opinion. I don't agree with some things. But to take a few things that people consider to be sin and try to say that's the worst things in the world and we got to ride on those things. But everything else is not as bad like a lie or a lie. are adultery or murder. Those aren't as bad, which is absolutely ridiculous. If you're going to call C & C, call it across the board and don't just stick a couple of things out. People are taking... the scriptures to justify hate and there's no justification for it. This man was on TV on, I don't know, another station, TLC, but another time, and he was talking about how some man, a politician or something, said he hates Muslims or something. He hates Muslims.
00:49:38
Speaker 10: That's what he said.
00:49:40
Speaker 12: Then this man got on the radio and said, well, he was just in his flesh. And if you know anything about the Holy Ghost, if you're in your flesh, you repent and you apologize. So I said, well, if he's in his flesh, I caused it. If he's in his flesh, why doesn't he call and apologize to these Muslims and say, I am so sorry. I was in my flesh. I was wrong. I do not hate you. Hate is a strong word to say to anybody. But this man tried to justify hate. To get his point across. And there's no justification. Jesus is not behind it. He's not behind any of this corruption. He's not behind. And we as the church, we have got to pray. This has been going on for 250 years. We need to pray that we got the Holy Ghost, that racism be gone. cast out people in this country. We need to pray about that and ask Jesus to take that away, because Jesus has nothing to do with slavery. Jesus had nothing to do with.
00:50:45
Speaker 5: Lynching.
00:50:45
Speaker 12: Jesus has nothing to do with none of that. And people are trying to justify that stuff. Somebody said, well, that was a necessary evil. I'm like, what? You're going to justify Jesus has something to Something to do with that? And I can understand why Muslims feel the way they do. If you're a black man and your mom, your great-great-grandmama got murdered, or not great-great, a cousin got murdered, or somebody you know got lynched or sold into slavery, what would you do? Would you go to Jesus?
00:51:23
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
00:51:24
Speaker 12: And they say, well, Jesus did all, you know, backing that up, talking about that's okay. And I heard one man say, like I said before, he said, well, you know, The guy wants the the the the races to be separate because he going all the way back to Genesis. Well, they built a car, Babel, and he separated the races because he wanted to be together. He separated the races because they wanted to be like God. They were already together.
00:51:59
Speaker 15: Yeah.
00:52:00
Speaker 1: And you know what? You know, you made a good point.
00:52:02
Speaker 10: Yeah.
00:52:04
Speaker 1: Talking about the history of this practice because of using the Bible to validate yourself, you know, validate yourself and your cruelty and your, you know, your heartlessness and basically killing in.
00:52:17
Speaker 12: A lot of ways when it came to.
00:52:19
Speaker 1: Yeah that has been yeah that's sad.
00:52:26
Speaker 12: That is nothing but the devil.
00:52:29
Speaker 16: That's what that is and people are brainwashed in that no that's okay that's okay I appreciate your call and yeah nothing that but I really do like the point that this is steeped so deeply in history dating back to probably even prior to that, but most recent history, 250.
00:52:52
Speaker 1: Years, and a little bit more with slavery, using the Bible to justify and to control people, things of that nature. So she's absolutely correct. But no, Donald Trump is not the chosen one.
00:53:05
Speaker 2: No, no, he's not.
00:53:06
Speaker 1: Those that want to believe it, more power to you.
00:53:08
Speaker 11: He's not.
00:53:09
Speaker 3: 317-480-1310, 317-480-1310.
00:53:09
Speaker 1: George, go ahead. How are you? Thank you.
00:53:16
Speaker 17: Hey, Tina, how you doing?
00:53:17
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
00:53:18
Speaker 1: Doing good, yes, I can.
00:53:20
Speaker 17: Okay, I had Eric over there cracking up a minute ago. I know that you're on social media talking about Trump, talking about he could still go after Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. You know. But what I wanted to say was, who was the alien lizard lady standing next to him? The reptilian. Because I looked at her face and I looked.
00:53:45
Speaker 5: At her skin.
00:53:46
Speaker 17: She didn't look human. I'm just saying. Have you seen her yet?
00:53:50
Speaker 12: Have you seen it?
00:53:51
Speaker 1: No, no, because I try not to look at too many pictures or images of him. I read about it and I might even listen without looking. But I did not see it. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt that somebody was looking at him.
00:54:05
Speaker 17: Well, she was standing right next to him in a red dress, if you go on social media. And he was sitting in the Oval Office. She was standing right up. She was making a comment about.
00:54:13
Speaker 4: We're.
00:54:13
Speaker 17: Doing certain things for people, and people don't understand what we're doing. It was some kind of weird stuff she was talking about, and he was making a comment about, I could still have Joe Biden, Clinton, and Obama prosecuted or go after him, and I told him no. But if you look at this lady in the red dress, she looks like a lizard person. And I'm not trying to be, like, sci-fi, conspiracy theory, or anything like that. But if you take a look at her and look at her skin and how her body, the way she's staying... She's not, she don't look human.
00:54:44
Speaker 1: So you think Trump's hanging out with aliens in the White House?
00:54:48
Speaker 4: You know what?
00:54:50
Speaker 17: I'm not going to be a conspiracy theorist, and I've heard things about Area 51 and all this stuff, but do I believe in the existence of other life on different planets and different dimensions?
00:55:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker 17: And I've heard stories about different presidents who had negotiations with people from other planets, solar systems and stuff. She did not look, I mean, I'm looking closer at her and I'm looking at her eyes and I'm looking at the way her skin is and she does not look human. Something about her looked like a reptilian.
00:55:22
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take a look at it.
00:55:23
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm not trying to call or say she is or say allegedly for the purposes of the channel and everybody that she is.
00:55:30
Speaker 1: That's unusual. Yeah, that's unusual, George. Thank you. Thank you for the call. That's a little bit unusual because he prides himself on hiring only pretty people. You know, that's very true. He really likes to just hire pretty people. So we let's take a quick break right here. We'll be right back.
00:55:55
Speaker 13: WTLC AM, W236 CR, Indianapolis. Broadcasting from the Praise Indy Indigo Studios. Discussing the issues that matter to you. It's Community Connection with Tina Cosby on Praise AM 1310, 95.1 FM.
00:56:13
Speaker 1: And we are back with Community Connection. I wanted to make a correction. I was just assuming, because I really hadn't been paying attention to Hurricane Issei. He say he is. He say he is. But it looks like it's coming up, traveling north from the Gulf.
00:56:27
Speaker 2: From the Gulf.
00:56:28
Speaker 1: Not from the Atlantic, from the Gulf.
00:56:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the Gulf.
00:56:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gulf Coast. Of Mexico.
00:56:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico. That would affect our weather. That could affect us in the future.
00:56:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it could be a straight beeline.
00:56:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Exactly.
00:56:41
Speaker 1: Indiana, because it looks like it's coming up through, well, yeah, right. Oh, my goodness. Almost straight up to Indiana coast. Arkansas, yeah.
00:56:51
Speaker 7: So depending on if there's a weather system to the northwest at some point that would force it to go more east, it could be coming this way.
00:56:58
Speaker 2: You see that?
00:56:59
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:56:59
Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like it's just marching straight up the middle and Indiana's right in its path.
00:57:04
Speaker 2: So far, yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker 1: By the time it will get to Indiana, I'm sure it will have severely weakened. But, you know, some of those lingering effects can last for a few days.
00:57:14
Speaker 4: They can.
00:57:15
Speaker 2: They certainly can.
00:57:16
Speaker 9: Wow.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
00:57:17
Speaker 7: And of course, the hurricane's name is Isaiah. At least that's the way it's said. How'd you say it again?
00:57:25
Speaker 1: Isaías.
00:57:26
Speaker 2: Isaías. That's Spanish for Isaiah. One of our listeners shared that with me.
00:57:30
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, listener.
00:57:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
00:57:32
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. But yeah, this doesn't look like it's the East Coast. It's not coastal at all. I mean, it is coastal, but it's not East Coast. It's not coming out of the Atlantic. It's coming out of the Gulf of Mexico.
00:57:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had some storms come from the Gulf that have created some havoc. In the past, too.
00:57:47
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:57:48
Speaker 2: So got to watch that one.
00:57:50
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
00:57:51
Speaker 1: Indeed. Katrina, right?
00:57:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, Katrina. That was horrible.
00:57:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:57:55
Speaker 1: Catastrophic.
00:57:56
Speaker 2: It certainly was.
00:57:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. Stacey, go ahead. How are you?
00:58:02
Speaker 3: Hi, Tina.
00:58:03
Speaker 10: How are you?
00:58:03
Speaker 13: I'm well.
00:58:04
Speaker 1: Thank you.
00:58:05
Speaker 3: Hey, good.
00:58:05
Speaker 4: I was calling in reference to the young lady that called about the AES fob.
00:58:11
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
00:58:13
Speaker 4: I also... received it, and I called just one to make sure that it was authentic. So many scams going on. But two, the account number didn't match, and they advised me that many in the first batch that went out were incorrect and disabled. So that might explain.
00:58:37
Speaker 1: Oh, well, she didn't get the right explanation.
00:58:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't work. But I heard you ask her, did she call AES? And I thought she said no, but she wanted to comply. But I think I would have went like I did. I called AES first. I would have called you second.
00:58:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good. That's a smart sequence.
00:59:00
Speaker 4: That's your best line of defense. Ask them what's going on.
00:59:04
Speaker 1: Ask them exactly what's going on and what can be done. But that's, that makes sense what you just said, because you know, she probably is in the first batch and they, you know, they probably have to reissue or correct or something.
00:59:16
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:59:17
Speaker 1: That could have saved her some time too, you know, trying.
00:59:19
Speaker 4: To force some energy and hopefully, you know, cause she was very heated and upset about it could have saved some of that too. But I had to get beyond calling them the artificial intelligence that you first get on the line when you call them. I have a disdain for that when I call the different places. But I will say I had to call Apple about a week ago and got artificial intelligence, and it changed my whole perspective. It was better than talking to a human.
00:59:49
Speaker 1: Oh, really?
00:59:50
Speaker 4: I said, young lady, you are doing a wonderful job. I appreciate it. She said, well, thank you. Aim to please.
00:59:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow.
00:59:58
Speaker 4: But that's all I was calling just to give a little clarity that I guess eventually many of us will get them. But, you know, many in that first batch were, you know, not correct. So AES deactivated them, and that would cause them not to work if you try to pay using them.
01:00:15
Speaker 1: That makes, wow, tremendous sense. So hopefully that gives some clarity to our caller as well. So that, you know, yeah, thank you. Thank you for that.
01:00:24
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
01:00:25
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Stacey.
01:00:26
Speaker 11: Yeah.
01:00:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when in doubt, I mean, it is a good idea to always check with them first.
01:00:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
01:00:33
Speaker 1: Because that's the first I'd ever heard of that. I don't know anything about it. Now we know a little bit more, but I didn't know anything about key fobs. I had no idea.
01:00:41
Speaker 2: I'm clueless on that, of course.
01:00:43
Speaker 1: Let's go to William Duke Oliver. Counselor Oliver, how are you today?
01:00:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, just fine.
01:00:50
Speaker 14: I'm at church here, Reverend Martin and Reverend Bates. It's going to come up on our Thursday here Bible study.
01:00:59
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
01:01:00
Speaker 1: Thursday Bible study.
01:01:02
Speaker 14: Mail-in ballots that were sent out to persons yesterday. At least my wife got one. I didn't get one.
01:01:08
Speaker 5: I don't know.
01:01:08
Speaker 14: Some question about the president wanted to nationalize the postal service to pull out ballots out of the mail, things like that, set aside. Is there an update on that? I'm going to speak with Sister here about that also.
01:01:23
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything on it.
01:01:25
Speaker 14: Good afternoon.
01:01:26
Speaker 4: Hi.
01:01:26
Speaker 8: A lot of the Democratic parties are getting mail-in ballots automatically sent to their homes. In the past, you always had to request a mail-in ballot. Why, since he, Brons, submitted our voter registration to the president, why now we're getting automatic mail-in ballots when you always had to request a mail-in ballot? Our absentee mail-in ballots, now they're coming to the Democratic Party automatically.
01:01:59
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're, I don't know.
01:02:03
Speaker 8: That's something we need.
01:02:06
Speaker 1: To be aware of. Something we need to find out more about, because I think I got one. If it looks like, and I was like, I didn't request this. Why is this?
01:02:14
Speaker 8: Exactly, because Ron submitted our voter registration. To the president when they requested him by state.
01:02:22
Speaker 1: I think that was Diego Morales that did that, according to Julia Vaughn. Diego, because he's the chief. He's the state's chief election officer. So he surrendered the voter rolls to the Trump administration. It was Diego Morales. We do know. from our visit with Julia Vaughn a couple of days ago that he did do that.
01:02:45
Speaker 8: That's true. So therefore, they're sending them out automatically with Democrats to mail-in ballots. We're suggesting that people are— I' m part of Win With Black Women, and the congresspeople that are on our meetings on Sunday nights are saying go to the polls and vote because they're going to be pulling mail-in ballots. It's not going to be counted. So we need to go to the polls and vote.
01:03:09
Speaker 1: So go physically and don't be fooled by the paper.
01:03:11
Speaker 3: Physically.
01:03:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be fooled.
01:03:13
Speaker 9: That's right.
01:03:13
Speaker 8: Well, we've been talking— Because we always have to do the mail-in. We always have to request a mail-in ballot.
01:03:19
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:03:19
Speaker 8: They just don't send them to you. And it has to be a reason, because in the past, when you called in for a mail-in ballot, it had to be a legitimate reason why you could not go out and vote.
01:03:30
Speaker 1: So you think you're sending them to people so that people will just take the easy way out and mail it in, and then they can— Exactly. And it's pulled later.
01:03:39
Speaker 8: That's right. And they're not going to count those mail-in ballots.
01:03:42
Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. I threw mine out. Yeah, I threw mine out.
01:03:49
Speaker 8: Yes, because if you look at the postmark and the permit that's on those mail-ins, those ones that they're sending them out, and you can check with the postal service for that permit number, and you would see if it's legit or it's not. Okay. So people need to be aware of that.
01:04:07
Speaker 1: Thank you, yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.
01:04:09
Speaker 8: And I used to work for the postal service, so I know.
01:04:12
Speaker 3: Please.
01:04:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
01:04:13
Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
01:04:13
Speaker 1: So you say there's a code.
01:04:16
Speaker 8: There is a permit number on that mail imbalance that was sent out mail. And you've got to check the permit number through the postal service to see if it's legit. And that's how they're going to discard those mail imbalance because that permit number may not be legit.
01:04:33
Speaker 1: Have you did the one that you say you got one? Did you do the comparison? Was it legit?
01:04:39
Speaker 8: Bill, let me I haven't compared it yet, but let me hold that mail imbalance. Oh, you didn't put it in the car already, but yeah, you have to, you have to verify them and down in Brazil and all those that have been on our zoom meetings are saying, check them because if your state sent them in, they may not be legit.
01:04:59
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:00
Speaker 1: Good point. But you know what?
01:05:04
Speaker 8: Telling us to be aware of all of that.
01:05:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:05:07
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Thank you. I really, really, really appreciate that because that's, I thought it was strange that, you know. So you're thinking there could be sending out counterfeit voter registration mail-in. Yeah, without the right. They all could be counterfeit unless you request it.
01:05:26
Speaker 2: Unless you requested it.
01:05:27
Speaker 1: Throw it out.
01:05:28
Speaker 2: Throw it out.
01:05:28
Speaker 1: Unless you requested a mail-in ballot. If one just came to you, don't take it as is. Throw it away unless you requested it. If you requested it, then by all means but yeah I thought that was a little strange I wish I wouldn't have thrown mine away though because I was like what is this.
01:05:47
Speaker 8: Thing because there's a return permit number on there and that's how they're going to get past the court system with this false you know if it's not a legit permit number all those ballots are going to be thrown out.
01:06:03
Speaker 1: All because someone can't stand to lose.
01:06:05
Speaker 8: Yes, and the national, and like I say, I'm part of Win With Black Women, and we have been on Zoom meetings every single Sunday night trying to educate people on these mail-in ballots. And the permit number that's going out is permit number 593. And see, we have to check to make sure that's a legitimate permit number, because if not, every one of those ballots are going to be thrown out.
01:06:32
Speaker 11: Hmm.
01:06:33
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:06:33
Speaker 1: And you check it against the post office?
01:06:36
Speaker 3: Yes.
01:06:38
Speaker 1: So where on the postal website do you go to check that?
01:06:41
Speaker 8: You can even call the main office, because all of them are going to be going to 309 West Washington Street. That's what's on there, ZIP Code 46204. You can call the main post office on South Street and ask them, is their permit number 593 legitimate? And they'll tell you who it's registered to.
01:07:07
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:07:13
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:07:13
Speaker 9: All right.
01:07:14
Speaker 1: Good, good info. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
01:07:16
Speaker 3: Yes, please.
01:07:17
Speaker 1: See if we can find it. Yes, indeed. Absolutely.
01:07:20
Speaker 11: Absolutely.
01:07:20
Speaker 18: Because you always had to pass, and I state, if I'm not correct, our state of Indiana registration, voters law saying you must request an absentee ballot, not get it automatically.
01:07:33
Speaker 1: No, the state's never just given them to us.
01:07:35
Speaker 3: Uh-uh.
01:07:36
Speaker 10: No.
01:07:37
Speaker 8: So be aware.
01:07:38
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:07:38
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's great. And certainly something we can look up. Permit number 593, legitimate mail permit. Okay. It looks like Mr. Russell.
01:07:50
Speaker 11: Mr.
01:07:50
Speaker 1: Russell, go ahead.
01:07:51
Speaker 2: There we are.
01:07:53
Speaker 4: Hey, folks.
01:07:55
Speaker 10: The young lady that just spoke, she's right on, you know, because you have to request an absentee ballot. vote by mail ballot from a Marion County election board if you're in Marion County and other counties I presume have similar situations. So that's something that definitely needs to be checked out. These folks, it's amazing, you know, in the 250th year since the Declaration of Independence, we have a president that's trying everything he can to Unduly remain in office. His record doesn't qualify him to remain in office, in my opinion, but that's just me, I guess. But it's really amazing that the list that these folks will go to to try to subvert and suppress racism. But I also wanted to say that I just got a notice from Mr. Glenn Powell about a walk and talk program they're having Saturday morning, this coming Saturday morning at 7.30 at.
01:09:19
Speaker 10: Riverside Park, where it says calling all men, boys and whatever, but they're going to have a walk and talk conversation and exercise program. And for more information, the number is 317. Let me check this real quick. 317-345-3879, Glenn Powell, for more information.
01:09:59
Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Sounds good. Okay. Thank you.
01:10:03
Speaker 10: So people are coming together, and that's a great thing because that's what we have to do.
01:10:08
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:10:08
Speaker 10: In the face of this AI, which I think should be SI, which stands for support... intelligence rather than artificial intelligence because if you support intelligence, that includes natural intelligence, which is what we need to be supporting.
01:10:33
Speaker 11: Indeed.
01:10:35
Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you, Mr.
01:10:36
Speaker 4: Russell.
01:10:36
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you. Ricky, go ahead. Oh, you were at last night's meeting about Metroblocks.
01:10:43
Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
01:10:45
Speaker 3: Out at Douglas Park, the TV station was there. The house was full. We had a Lakeisha Jackson was there. I think Porter was there. Some of the other guys are talking about how these tax abatements are coming down for this company and kept raising the same thing. When we had the interview a couple months ago about if the gentleman, if the public didn't want it, they was not going to build it. But they were not there. They sent somebody else to try to make us feel good. But it was a smokescreen. 40-year tax abatement. And I said, 40 years? I said, at this time of a lot of people's lives that live over here, they won't even be here probably another 60 years and got to deal with a crazy tax increase that's going to hit us. And the lady couldn't really explain what was going on, but it made me so mad. Our councilman was there, Mr. Ron Gibson. This is the first time I'm going to have to bust up my Democratic ticket in a long time because I can't take it. And the only one in that room that was upset about the smoke screen that we got told.
01:12:05
Speaker 5: To us.
01:12:07
Speaker 3: It was a full house.
01:12:08
Speaker 1: Good, good.
01:12:11
Speaker 3: And then she told us they're going to make a decision, I think the 21st of this month, whether it's a go or a nay. And then all the money... that they have, it's donating them. If they walk away, she couldn't answer who's going to get caught. One more other thing, I'll let y'all go, of the people that checks our water and our soil through the state, they said that land is contaminated with this, this, this. It's going to be privatized through Metro Block. Now, y'all figure that out. If it ain't a smoke screen, I don't know. And Mayor Hoff said I need to be called on the carpet about this because he's wrong on it. Yeah. He's wrong, he's wrong, he's wrong.
01:12:49
Speaker 1: But what's the status of the lawsuit, do you know?
01:12:54
Speaker 3: She couldn't say. They say it was still pending. She couldn't say. She was just like a person there, just there, okay, this is what's going to happen, this is what's going to happen. But basically what she was telling us last night, at the 21st when they have this other meeting, it's supposed to be a done deal, and even the one that they're building down on the south side of Decatur Township.
01:13:13
Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
01:13:15
Speaker 3: So this is a nightmare. Yeah, it is.
01:13:18
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate, too, and thank you. Thank you, Ricky. It's unfortunate, too, that the measure passed by the city county council isn't retroactive about the moratorium on, yeah, because that would have been really, really helpful.
01:13:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got those in under the radar, basically.
01:13:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
01:13:38
Speaker 1: And I understand the anger and frustration there, too. I don't always understand. You know, what people are most concerned about is what they're going to have to pay.
01:13:47
Speaker 5: Exactly.
01:13:47
Speaker 1: In a couple of ways. Basically, the utilities, but, you know, just pay in terms of what's in their neighborhood. Water usage, how's that going to be affected? All of that. There's too much. It's unexplained. I'm glad he went, and I'm glad it was a packed house.
01:14:02
Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely.
01:14:02
Speaker 1: Because that means the pressure's still on, and so... Keep doing it.
01:14:06
Speaker 2: People have not forgotten.
01:14:07
Speaker 12: What does he say?
01:14:07
Speaker 1: I got to break up my Democratic ticket. I said, go ahead.
01:14:12
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
01:14:12
Speaker 1: Break it up. Hey, but that's the democratic system.
01:14:15
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
01:14:16
Speaker 1: And at work. And if you feel as if someone in charge of representing you has not fully represented you, then you do not put them back in office.
01:14:26
Speaker 2: That's right.
01:14:27
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:14:27
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. It's as simple as it goes. And I just love the way he said it. I'm not laughing, but it just tickled me how passionate he was. Like, darn it, I got to break up my team.
01:14:37
Speaker 2: Very much so.
01:14:38
Speaker 1: Because I can't vote for him again. And it was... But that's democracy at work. It is. I keep saying that. Democracy at work indeed. Let us switch now to our friend from the Indianapolis Recorder. On this Thursday, Danny Bridges with sports. Last time we spoke with Danny, he was a little under the weather. So, Danny, we're going to check up on you today. How are you feeling?
01:15:09
Speaker 10: Well.
01:15:09
Speaker 5: I do feel better. I'm not a hundred percent, but I feel better than I did last time we talked.
01:15:14
Speaker 11: That's for sure.
01:15:15
Speaker 1: Okay. Not a hundred percent. So was it bronchitis? Did you say that?
01:15:20
Speaker 5: You know, I, I, I still can't figure out what's going on. Uh, try to get a doctor's appointment in America today. You know, I mean, look, and it's not their fault that I'm under the weather. I feel better. Like I said, but, uh, I think I have a compromised immune system. I'm old.
01:15:40
Speaker 11: I'm cranky. I'm dehydrated.
01:15:42
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of good stuff working against me, but feeling a lot better than I did last week, and I plan on resting here for a while, and we'll get it back into check, but still able to look at things around me in terms of sports and wonder why and laugh a little bit, scratch my head a little bit. So, you know, there's that.
01:16:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, there definitely is that. So have you been able to get out much or are you still staying in pretty much?
01:16:16
Speaker 5: A little bit, a little bit. I'm a little bit guarded. You know, I don't know if I'm germy or not, but feeling better. Thanks for asking. And, you know, I looked in the mirror this morning. I said, gosh, you don't feel good, but you look good.
01:16:31
Speaker 4: So that was great.
01:16:33
Speaker 5: That was inspirational.
01:16:35
Speaker 1: Okay, I love it, love it, love it. Well, one of your favorite things, other than auto racing, to talk about, NBA basketball, it's back. Last night, the preseason. The preseason, the Pacers are in Ames, Iowa.
01:16:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Tyrese Halliburton placation tour went to Iowa. They took the court from Indianapolis. They took the stat crew. I'm like, really? What's all this about? Well, I think it's about an extension, but that's down the road, and we can talk about that some other time, contractually speaking. But I thought that there were a couple moments that caught my eye. He addressed the crowd, and he walked out with a microphone to midcourt to speak, and noticed a little gait in his walk that is not normal for him. Obviously, you know, comparing him pre-injury to where he's at now. He did play 16 minutes total last night. And I'm glad to see that there was a minutes restriction. When I wrote about this a week or so ago, you know, he had said at media day, no restrictions, no restrictions. I thought, well, that's not realistic. And it's good to see that people who are much smarter about medical science than I am, than he is as well, have stepped in and said, this is how we're going.
01:17:57
Speaker 11: To do it.
01:17:58
Speaker 5: This is exhibition to begin with. We're not going to worry about, you know, wins and losses and aims Iowa or anywhere else for that matter, from a preseason perspective. And they controlled how much he was on the floor. Didn't see an explosiveness. Didn't expect to. I did see him move around relatively well. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens when he's under fire and trying to push off on that foot and, do the types of things that we were accustomed to him doing prior to that horrific injury. So I guess you have to say it's a good sign that he was out there moving around, um, you know, as opposed to where it was, you know, as they said over 400 days ago, since he played competitive basketball. So all the best to him, fingers crossed, uh, Keep a watchful eye upon it. But in no way, shape, or form is this thing out of the woods, in my opinion.
01:18:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, a bit of a, what do you call it, a little bit of a gate, I guess. A little bit.
01:19:05
Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't dramatic, but I noticed it because I was looking for it. The same way I look for it with Victor Oladipo after his injury, the same way Daniel Jones looks at times. I mean, I guess, you know, we take for granted these guys are, you know, young and they work hard at rehab and they have the luxury of, you know, great surgeons, great therapists, great doctors, you just name it. And you think, oh, they'll be okay. Well, it's a process. And I hope for his sake, personally, it goes well. Cause if it goes well for him, I think it'll go well for the Pacers. They, uh, they have some interesting parts that are back. Um, time will tell. I still think, uh, they need a legitimate backup point guard. I still think it would be nice to see somebody who could defend on the wing, but, uh, you know, look, it's always easy in October to wish for things for Christmas.
01:20:01
Speaker 11: Right.
01:20:02
Speaker 5: But I will simply say that they, uh, it didn't surprise me last night. I think I've seen what I have become accustomed to out of that core group, but it was good to see him on the floor.
01:20:15
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:20:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:20:16
Speaker 1: Didn't seem winded at all. I mean, he, you know, cause there's a lot to run it up and down. Yeah.
01:20:24
Speaker 5: I do believe that, you know, there is a difference even preseason and regular season, but certainly practice and preseason even. So, The needle's moving the right way. Let's hope it continues. I wish him nothing but good things. Seems like an affable, good-hearted young man. And even if he wasn't, you don't want anybody to be hurt in athletics.
01:20:46
Speaker 1: I heard some folks talking this morning that Braden Smith was booed at the arena. Is that correct? What was up with that?
01:20:56
Speaker 5: Well, Iowa State played Purdue last night. last year, but I think what the year before at it and that arena, look, that guy has got more out of what athletic talent he doesn't have. There's a weird statement than anybody I've ever seen, but at the collegiate level, I might add, but he also has had a knack to rub people the wrong way from time to time, whether that's part of his personality, whether that's part of the way he approaches the game, what have you. There were some people in the crowd that remember those things. And, you know, we're talking about a college arena. We're talking about a college crowd mostly. So there were 14,000 people there. The student section was 8,000. Those are the numbers reported. I have no proof or idea of such. But the point is somebody in the crowd remembered him, and they weren't thrilled about it.
01:21:50
Speaker 11: But, you know what, that's okay.
01:21:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just certainly a sidebar. Nothing that impacted or whatever the game. Braden Smith, of course, former Boilermaker.
01:22:00
Speaker 5: I don't look for him to contribute to the Pacers this year. I think most of his time will be spent with the G League affiliate, but you never know. You never know what can happen in sports, but I'll give him credit to get to where he's at this point is a remarkable accomplishment, in my opinion, as far as the grit, the determination, and, you know, what he has to do to make up for a lack of physical talent.
01:22:28
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:22:29
Speaker 1: So your Colts were in jolly old England on Sunday, Sunday morning. And what say you about that performance?
01:22:39
Speaker 5: They won.
01:22:41
Speaker 1: They won.
01:22:42
Speaker 5: I would say they're fortunate that the opposition, unfortunately, had a couple of injuries during the game. And I'm going to leave that part alone. I thought when I talk about injuries, I want players to be healthy.
01:22:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. We don't want anybody hurt.
01:22:58
Speaker 5: But they made their third string quarterback. They'd be in the cold. Secondary look better probably than he is. Uh, they did win the game. A couple of things stuck out to me. Of course, Buckner, uh, played well again. Uh, Obviously, he's playing for a new contract. I hope that he can remain healthy for his after-football years as far as his neck and his neurological health is concerned. I was impressed with him, though. I thought that he was a difference maker. I thought that at times the Colts' defense as a whole, specifically the pass rush, showed a little bit of– pedigree which we haven't seen a lot of historically but the bottom line is as we sit here today there are two ensued only a game behind jacksonville in the division and considering how things started and considering some of the things we thought we might see and didn't uh and the injury thing as well they're probably pretty happy as they head to pittsburgh this weekend.
01:24:06
Speaker 1: What do you think uh the steelers are they've had a couple of problems here and there uh I don't know. Steelers, Colts, what do you think?
01:24:14
Speaker 5: Well, Steelers have a prominent quarterback. Aaron Rodgers is no longer the Aaron Rodgers that we all used to enjoy watching. And, you know, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. There's no question about that. But he can't move. So if the Colts can't sack him three or four times this Sunday, they might as well just give up as far as a pass rush is concerned. Because I don't think his offensive line is that great. He has being Rogers. So I think they've got a good chance to get a road win. I really do. In fact, I'd be surprised if the Colts don't win a close ball game this weekend.
01:24:51
Speaker 15: Really?
01:24:53
Speaker 5: I said, I'll probably get.
01:24:54
Speaker 4: Beat 38 to three.
01:24:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I hope you're wrong on that.
01:24:57
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:24:58
Speaker 5: I think, I think they do have a shot to win this ball game because the Pittsburgh is a, They're just not impressive as an offense. Now, perhaps I'm wrong about all this. I was wrong once.
01:25:14
Speaker 10: I can't remember when it was.
01:25:15
Speaker 5: You'll have to remind me. But seriously, I'd be surprised if they don't. I'd be surprised if they don't win a close ball game. And a lot of people are like, oh, I'm not so sure about that. Well, I can understand why they'd feel that way, too. I said a close one. And that could mean that Pittsburgh is also capable. The Colts have.
01:25:37
Speaker 5: They've shown some decent road pedigree this year. I hate to rain on anyone's parade to the contrary, but, you know, played fairly well at times at Kansas City, did what they had to do to regroup and win the game in London. Obviously, the first game of the year was a travesty, and it took them to the very end to beat Houston at home on a late field goal. But the reality is they're 2-2 in a very, shall we say, suspect division when you look past Jacksonville. Again, would they rather be 3-1 or 4-0? Well, heck yeah. But after that Baltimore game, if I just said to you, hey, they're going to be 2-2 when they roll into Pittsburgh, you just said, I'll take it.
01:26:19
Speaker 1: Okay. We have a caller that has a question for you. Joe, you have a question for Danny. How are you?
01:26:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing fine. I've got a couple questions. First off, Danny, if you're the king of the hill, you won the NCAA football championship. a championship undefeated and they come out and you're not voted in as the top rated team in the preseason. And then they say, well, they almost lost the game to Northwestern and they drop us down a spot. What is how you have to do to gain their respect? Well, I think that's an interesting question.
01:27:02
Speaker 5: And here's why I talked to someone about that. this morning over to breakfast. I think two things. The transfer portal changes a lot. There are some new faces on the Indiana team at some key positions. There's also some talent at those respective positions. I do believe they're a well-coached group. I don't think it's the same unit as last year for the obvious reasons, the lack of, as I said, people transferring, people graduating, what have you. I don't think they lost a lot to transfer, though. They brought in more than they lost, that's for sure. I think they haven't played anybody, really, to be quite frank. I mean, Northwestern was their biggest opponent so far, and they won that ball game. You make a good point. They did win the game, and that's what's important. And Signetti had talked about, hey, Northwestern's a pretty decent football team leading up to that game. So I think with Nebraska this weekend, if they go in there– take care of business. I think the ratings thing might adjust a little bit. I think some of the teams that have been rated ahead of them have some marquee name value and have played maybe a couple games here and there as far as a better schedule. The reality is Indiana's... Sorry about that. The preseason conference or non-conference schedule for them... is that was pretty lame so i think that is and seconds sucking some voters mind but i think you could make a case i don't know that they're the best people in the country right now rated higher perhaps.
01:28:46
Speaker 1: Okay um so joe joe your your your point is or your belief is that Somebody's.
01:28:56
Speaker 3: Got some background.
01:28:57
Speaker 4: If you are the king of the hill and you want to be fanged, you're undefeated, I think you need to be the king of the hill until you get beat and knocked off of that hill.
01:29:09
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
01:29:09
Speaker 5: That's how the rating system works. That's how the rating system works. There is some merit to what you're saying. I would agree with that in theory, but I don't look at them as the king of the hill right now. I think they're a very good football team.
01:29:22
Speaker 1: But you know what, though? I see Joe. I kind of see Joe's point in that if this had been an Ohio State or a Michigan or an LSU, a big name, they would have been number one until somebody knocked them off. So maybe that's what he's saying, transfer portal or not. I mean, IU just, what he's talking about is the respectability. Because I have seen, and there have been questions, I think most recently Ohio State not this year, but maybe last year or some, anyway, coming off of a championship one year, they were number one and everybody was just flabbergasted because how can they be number one? And then the answer was, well, they're number one until somebody knocks them off. And so that is, I think is what Joe is saying. Does it have to do with just the fact that it's Indiana university and not Michigan or Ohio state or LSU or, Where's that one? Clemson or whoever. There have been a lot of college teams that have won the championship and come back at the top of the polls to start the season.
01:30:32
Speaker 5: It depends on your roster, and it depends on– and again, I go back to the transfer portal. I don't think any team is going to win two championships in a row with this current system of rules as far as the transfer portal, NIM, et cetera. I don't think that's going to happen. Now, that doesn't mean that Indiana can't play well. And, look, I'm concerned about they haven't played anybody in their non-conference schedule, but there's other teams that you can point at who had the same, shall we say, schedule, for lack of a better term. But I just don't think it's feasible to maintain a roster in this particular era year to year to year to year. I don't think they can win the championship this year with that group for that reason alone. But on the other hand, there's some other great football teams out there. I've watched a really good Georgia team three times now at length. I thought that Ohio State was gutty to schedule Texas.
01:31:36
Speaker 1: But again, I don't think he's talking that deep into the season. I think he's just talking about Rankings and rankings and rankings respect. I think that's what, is that what you're.
01:31:45
Speaker 4: Talking about, Joe?
01:31:46
Speaker 5: You don't play on this track.
01:31:47
Speaker 4: You got to play on personnel. I'm going to tell you this. You better go and get your popcorn ready because I think Indiana is going to fool a lot of people.
01:32:00
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:32:01
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:32:02
Speaker 1: I got some popcorn out.
01:32:03
Speaker 4: I appreciate you saying it. Thank you.
01:32:06
Speaker 3: All right.
01:32:07
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:32:08
Speaker 1: Okay. Danny, there you go.
01:32:10
Speaker 5: I couldn't hear half of what he was saying.
01:32:13
Speaker 1: He was saying, go get your popcorn.
01:32:15
Speaker 5: That part of it earlier.
01:32:17
Speaker 1: Whatever's going to happen without you this season is popcorn worthy. So don't be surprised, I think is what he was saying.
01:32:24
Speaker 5: Well, even prior to that, when the conversation, I missed so much because the reverberation on his phone, but that's not his fault.
01:32:31
Speaker 4: No.
01:32:33
Speaker 5: Here's how I look at the AP poll. how the coaches poll works, they look at rosters. And if teams have recruited through the portal, through the transfer or the traditional sense, you know, signing a kid to a scholarship out of, you know, high school, which is, you know, that still happens, believe it or not, then you tally that and take a look at it. Are they the best in the country the first day of the season? Probably not. Now, that doesn't mean they're not a good football team. And, you know, they have been in the top five most of the season. But the ratings are going to jump up and down. But right now, you don't worry too much about the ratings in October unless you've lost twice, which obviously you haven't.
01:33:18
Speaker 1: Okay. Sherry has another question for you. Go ahead, Sherry.
01:33:23
Speaker 15: No, I just wanted to chime in on what I want on that last caller. But, I mean... The analyst just said what I was about to say. To me, IU, they are undefeated still. However, they don't attract the number one high school recruits out of nationwide. And even though the people are in the portal, it's still, to me, it's still all about the high school talent that you are recruiting. And IU right now is not one of those top teams that that a lot of high school students are wanting to play for. It's still all about the SEC.
01:34:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:34:01
Speaker 4: Sorry.
01:34:02
Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.
01:34:02
Speaker 1: Okay. SEC for life, right? I guess. I've heard the saying, you're not playing football unless you're.
01:34:12
Speaker 5: In the SEC.
01:34:13
Speaker 15: Or Michigan or Ohio State.
01:34:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, or Michigan or Ohio State in the Big Ten. Yeah, that's true.
01:34:19
Speaker 4: All right.
01:34:20
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sherry. Appreciate it.
01:34:22
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I thought she had concluded. I apologize.
01:34:25
Speaker 1: I did not mean to speak over her.
01:34:27
Speaker 5: No, that's okay.
01:34:27
Speaker 11: Go ahead.
01:34:28
Speaker 5: And I appreciate her call. I do believe the Big Ten is on equal footing with the SEC. I mean, the last three years specifically would wear that out or bear that out, excuse me. But she talked about something very interesting about high school talent, and that, too, has been impacted by the portal. If I am a hotshot senior in high school, I'm the number one rated whatever position you want to talk about. I've got monetary value. I've got NIL value. And that indicates to me or dictates policy as far as who may be recruiting better than other schools. They got who's spending more and where do I want to go? Who can enhance my image? Who can make me more marketable for the next level? And I mean, this is a chess game. High school, college, professional.
01:35:22
Speaker 1: All of it is, yeah.
01:35:24
Speaker 5: And it's become a business. A long time ago, it became a business, but now it's become personal wealth management. It's become image management.
01:35:35
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, yes.
01:35:36
Speaker 5: And it's become the type of thing where you can spend a lot of money on a player and it go the wrong way, or you can spend a lot of money on a player and he delivers. There's probably not a whole lot of in-between. I guess there is a a situation where a guy does some things well, but not as much as you thought he might. But, yeah, it's a mess.
01:35:58
Speaker 1: Okay, another caller has a question for you. Brian, go ahead.
01:36:02
Speaker 2: How are you?
01:36:03
Speaker 11: Yes. Good afternoon, Rachel and buddy Dan.
01:36:09
Speaker 1: Still waiting on that tender.
01:36:10
Speaker 5: How you been?
01:36:11
Speaker 1: Tenderloin.
01:36:14
Speaker 11: I've been all right. Are you going out to the track this weekend?
01:36:20
Speaker 5: I am probably going to stick my head in and look around a little bit. That's a different type of racing. But I do enjoy endurance racing. But I'm not looking to spend a lot of time to track this weekend. I'm probably going to rest up a little bit and watch a little television. I'll watch it on YouTube probably.
01:36:38
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:36:39
Speaker 11: My next question, though, what do you think of the mess of the fever? Well, they have– I'm sorry.
01:36:47
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
01:36:48
Speaker 11: I was going to say, even though you say you casually watch, but I watch the WNBA only because they still play the game as it's supposed to be played.
01:37:02
Speaker 5: I have said this publicly and written this. I think the fever organization I'm talking about, front office, when I say organization, is arguably.
01:37:15
Speaker 5: A personal opinion, rather dysfunctional. Now, you say, well, how is that? How can it be? I'll simply say this. It's a lot more than constructing a roster. They do have some talent. They've been fortunate in the draft by virtue of their futility that put them in position to draft Miss Boston, to draft Miss Clark. They need a better bench, certainly, in my opinion, but year before last, they were on the doorstep of the WNBA finals without some other better players. I think it's a mixed bag, but I'm more concerned about who's running the organization and who's making those decisions than I am the actual quality of play. I will agree with you. It's a different game. It's fundamentally stronger. I've never seen the women not play hard. They play below the rim, but The bottom line is there's a couple of holes in their armor defensively and rebound-wise. So I think they're still an interesting team, and I think they could be better than they are.
01:38:25
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:38:25
Speaker 1: You know what, Danny? I couldn't agree with you more on the point of there being dysfunction at the top.
01:38:32
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:38:33
Speaker 1: Dysfunction at the top, because I think that a lot of what the fever are having to worry about that they shouldn't have to worry about comes from some of that top down dysfunctions. I just do. There's so many, many things that that organization could have handled a whole lot better so that they could focus on basketball. To me, they continue to fumble the ball.
01:39:00
Speaker 5: I think they've got to resign Kelsey Mitchell. There's a cap on how much someone can earn. It's a much bigger cap than it once was in the WNBA. One of the things that the fever can do is line her up with some local endorsements, line her up in a situation where she's getting additional money, she's getting additional exposure. There are ways to do that, and I'm just going to leave it at that. Read between the lines.
01:39:38
Speaker 1: As a fan, I don't think that the problem with Kelsey Mitchell is endorsements or even money. I think it's I think it's beyond that. And I think that until the fever organization learns to think forward and backward side, you know, learns to think and see things other than from their own perspective. I think that that dysfunction is going to continue.
01:40:01
Speaker 5: Well, I would say this in response to your comment about money and endorsements. that plays a huge role.
01:40:10
Speaker 1: Well, there's other teams out there that have that, that probably a whole lot more that they could throw. So, I mean, if that's– I'm just saying if that's all there was to the dysfunction or the problem that– Well, I'm not saying that they're dysfunctional.
01:40:23
Speaker 5: I don't think they're necessarily being dysfunctional on that. I think maybe they're just sitting on their hands a bit. But it will– they've got as much money as anybody in the league from a standpoint of their ownership group. So that being said, let's try to keep this young lady in the fold. She is the key cog, in my opinion.
01:40:45
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, Brian. I'm sorry.
01:40:47
Speaker 11: You're fine. This is your show.
01:40:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
01:40:51
Speaker 11: I wholeheartedly believe, more or less, only thing is that we.
01:40:58
Speaker 1: We got feedback there.
01:41:01
Speaker 11: The roster that they have, and I'll just, as they say, a spade a spade. You know, Hull and Cunningham are the same player. You don't have the luxury of having two of the same player. And they messed up. They should have kept Odyssey Sims and drafted a big athletic to help Boston. They would be on their way. But like I said, that's from the hierarchy of the organization and where their ineptitude is showing. And until they rectify that, they're not going anywhere.
01:41:39
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian.
01:41:39
Speaker 4: Thank you, Brian.
01:41:40
Speaker 11: Thanks.
01:41:41
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Sorry about the feedback, everybody.
01:41:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some technical issues. Also, I think on the stream, engineers have been working on that.
01:41:49
Speaker 1: It's... It's the Hurricane Isaias.
01:41:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it.
01:41:53
Speaker 2: The hurricane.
01:41:54
Speaker 1: Hurricane Isaias is marching our way.
01:41:57
Speaker 2: Did you hear about that, Danny? Isaias.
01:41:59
Speaker 1: Isaias coming straight up from the Gulf of Mexico, literally on a path straight up, you know.
01:42:05
Speaker 5: Well, but I think usually those things run out of steam a bit when they hit land, and let's hope that's the case.
01:42:12
Speaker 1: They do. And then sometimes they take a severe turn to the right or left, too, sometimes.
01:42:17
Speaker 2: That's true.
01:42:18
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have the projected path.
01:42:20
Speaker 5: We could use some rain. I don't want any tropical storm type activity, but we could definitely use some rain.
01:42:27
Speaker 2: It's on the way.
01:42:28
Speaker 7: We're going to get some on Saturday, it looks like.
01:42:31
Speaker 2: Saturday night.
01:42:32
Speaker 4: There we go.
01:42:33
Speaker 9: I'll take it.
01:42:34
Speaker 1: You had a point, Danny, that you were talking about that you felt like if Nebraska is Indiana University's toughest opponent, what were you saying?
01:42:47
Speaker 5: I believe that I mean, just the way the schedule has unfolded to this point in the year, this is probably the best team that they will have played. So if you go into their arena or their stadium, excuse me, it's not a basketball game. If you go into their stadium, you take care of business, you control the football, your defense enforces its will upon them, and you come out of there anywhere 14 to 21 points up when it's all said and done, it's a good plane ride home. And I do believe that will also help their ranking a little bit as well. Again, I don't put too much into the rankings in October. I mean, 12 teams are going to be in the playoff. You can't tell me they're not one of the best 12 teams in the country. So there's that, number one. Number two, it's October. Number three, it's October. I think people should probably take a deep breath about where teams should be rated in And there's no perfect system for that, but the perfect way to resolve.
01:43:50
Speaker 1: It is to win football games. Very quickly, you didn't think Northwestern was the toughest opponent to date?
01:43:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they were to date, but I think Nebraska is a little bit better than they are.
01:44:03
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
01:44:04
Speaker 5: I don't think it's night and day, but if we're going to talk about Northwestern, we've got to talk about that Taj Mahal Stadium. Isn't that beautiful? I mean, are you kidding me? I did not realize their new stadium was that lavish. I knew they were building one. But, wow, what a tribute to technology and architecture, huh?
01:44:26
Speaker 4: Yeah.
01:44:26
Speaker 10: Come on.
01:44:27
Speaker 1: That school's got a lot of cash.
01:44:29
Speaker 2: A whole lot of money.
01:44:30
Speaker 1: A whole lot of money at Northwestern.
01:44:32
Speaker 5: Let me put it this way. If that thing had a retractable roof on it, you would see the Big Ten Championship moving that way.
01:44:40
Speaker 1: Moving to Chicago. We have one caller. Yeah, one caller real quick that commented. Go ahead, Sherry. Very quickly.
01:44:48
Speaker 15: Yeah, I just wanted to comment on the fever. And I wanted to ask, are there any good pieces that the person's job might be in jeopardy? I felt like the pound food... I felt like he was under the line in the playoffs. I felt like he was a huge enough. And then your additional number one draft pick from South Carolina, I don't think he had enough control in time.
01:45:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:45:17
Speaker 3: Okay. And to me, it.
01:45:19
Speaker 15: Feels like that the coach definitely liked he was a lot of control in the last year.
01:45:25
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:45:26
Speaker 10: Okay.
01:45:28
Speaker 1: So your overall question is, Danny, I don't know if you were able to hear that. Do you think that Coach Stephanie White's job is in jeopardy?
01:45:35
Speaker 4: I don't think it should be.
01:45:37
Speaker 5: I don't think it should be. That's the coach they wanted. They went out and got her. It's not an easy environment to coach in for two reasons, Caitlin Clark and Caitlin.
01:45:48
Speaker 4: Clark, okay?
01:45:49
Speaker 5: There's a lot of focus on how that resource is utilized, and that takes me back to the Kelsey Mitchell question. uh, aspect of it all. I believe she's the best player on that team. She being Kelsey Mitchell.
01:46:02
Speaker 1: No, no argument here.
01:46:04
Speaker 3: None.
01:46:04
Speaker 5: I think that, I think the tandem together is very powerful. So that's another good reason they want to keep that young lady, uh, employed here. But to the caller's point, do I think she's done a, an adequate job? Do I think her job is in jeopardy? I think she's done enough for her job not to be even discussed, but I don't make those decisions. Uh, I'm not as smart as some of the people are that do make those kind of decisions in professional sports. Notice I said some. But, hey, I hear that music.
01:46:40
Speaker 4: Recess is over.
01:46:41
Speaker 1: Recess is over, I guess, yeah. Yeah, that's what he tells me. We want to remind everybody, early voting is underway now at the City-County Building for Indianapolis and Marion County. If you want to find out where it is where you live, if you live outside of Marion County, indianavoters.com. Danny, you're calling it a win for the Colts on Sunday?
01:46:58
Speaker 8: Possibly.
01:47:00
Speaker 5: In a close game, I'm going to take the Colts, and more importantly... This midterm election has huge ramifications. Everybody vote. Give your neighbor a ride to the polls. If you need a ride, call me. My number's always in everything I write. I'll personally pick you up and take you to the polls.
01:47:18
Speaker 1: All righty. Tenderloin along the way, maybe. On a good day. On pay week. On pay week. How about that?
01:47:24
Speaker 5: There we go.
01:47:24
Speaker 1: Thanks, Danny. We'll talk to you again soon. That's all the time we have for right now. William Moore Jr., he's up next.
